(NewsNation) — Paul Njoroge spent a sleepless night in 2019 waiting for a text that never came, one confirming his wife and children’s arrival in Kenya following the birth of their youngest daughter.

Maybe they were tired, he thought, as time passed with no word from his wife — or maybe the Wi-Fi connection was weak. A news alert, however, dispelled his hopeful thinking.

“That’s what I was expecting, only to wake up and get a message on my phone that Ethiopian Airlines flight ET302 crashed six minutes after takeoff,” Njoroge said. “It’s one of those things that lives with me.”

Njoroge’s wife, Carolyne, and three children died in the March 9, 2019, Boeing plane crash. Each day without his partner and their 6-year-old son Ryan, 4-year-old daughter Kellie and 9-month-old daughter Rubi has been filled with anguish.

“It’s been emotional turbulence for the last five years,” he said.

Relief flooded Njoroge upon learning Boeing was in hot water with the U.S. Department of Justice.

Since then, legal troubles have continued to mount against the plane manufacturer. The Justice Department says the airplane manufacturer is in breach of a 2021 settlement, claiming Boeing hasn’t followed through on the changes it promised after two deadly 737 Max Jet crashes in 2018 and 2019, which killed 346 people.

Boeing says it’s held up part of the deal. The DOJ must decide whether to charge Boeing by July 7.

Meanwhile, the manufacturer has made headlines for repeated malfunctions.

Njoroge says he lives one day at a time.

“Boeing has to make sure that they revamp their internal control framework and the corporate governance as well, for them to return to an engineering-focused culture,” he said. “A culture focused on guarding human life instead of instead of focusing on profit maximization.”