Plugin crashed during automatic update

This is to inform you that the plugin crashed the website during auto-update last night. I managed to launch the website administration in WordPress recovery mode and to deactivate the plugin. In a second attempt the plugin was updated successfully and the website is back. No further support needed.

website details:

WordPress version 5.9.3
Current theme: Editor Blocks Child (version 1.0.1)
Current plugin: Modern Events Calendar Lite (version 6.5.5)
PHP version 7.4.29

Error Details
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An error of type E_ERROR was caused in line 61 of the file /homepages/16/d691190147/htdocs/hipwf/wp-content/plugins/modern-events-calendar-lite/mec-init.php. Error message: Uncaught Error: Call to a member function get_settings() on bool in /homepages/16/d691190147/htdocs/hipwf/wp-content/plugins/modern-events-calendar-lite/mec-init.php:61
Stack trace:
#0 /homepages/16/d691190147/htdocs/hipwf/wp-content/plugins/modern-events-calendar-lite/modern-events-calendar-lite.php(41): MEC->init()
#1 /homepages/16/d691190147/htdocs/hipwf/wp-settings.php(418): include_once('/homepages/16/d...')
#2 /homepages/16/d691190147/htdocs/hipwf/wp-config.php(77): require_once('/homepages/16/d...')
#3 /homepages/16/d691190147/htdocs/hipwf/wp-load.php(50): require_once('/homepages/16/d...')
#4 /homepages/16/d691190147/htdocs/hipwf/wp-login.php(12): require('/homepages/16/d...')
#5 {main}
  thrown