Relatives of people killed in two Boeing Co. 737 Max jet crashes asked a Fort Worth federal judge to reject a plea agreement the planemaker reached with the U.S...
Relatives of people killed in crashes have fought in a Fort Worth court for years for more accountability for the aircraft maker.
Clariss Moore, parent of Danielle, one of the crash victims of a Boeing 737 Max 8 in Ethiopia, holds her photograph while speaking at a news conference on Capitol Hill, June 18, 2024, in Washington.a plea agreement the planemaker reached with the U.S. Justice Department Boeing agreed earlier this month to plead guilty to criminal conspiracy in connection with crashes in 2018 and 2019 that killed 346 people. As part of the deal, which requires a judge’s approval, Boeing would pay a new criminal fine, install an independent corporate monitor for three years and spend at least $455 million to bolster its compliance and safety programs.Families of the victims filed their formal objection to the deal Wednesday in federal court in Texas.
“What emerged from the negotiations was a plea agreement treating Boeing’s deadly crime as another run-of-the-mill corporate compliance problem,” the families wrote in the filing.U.S. government determined in May that Boeing had violated a 2021 deferred-prosecution agreement US District Judge Reed O’Connor, who is overseeing the case, has yet to decide if he’ll hold a hearing on the plea deal.Delta Air Lines says it is facing $500 million in costs from CrowdStrike outage
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