Sara Boboltz is a reporter for HuffPost based in New York City. She can be reached at [email protected].
Families of the passengers who were killed in two Boeing plane crashes have asked the Department of Justice to fine the aerospace company $24.8 billion and prosecute “responsible corporate officials,” saying that “Boeing’s crime is the deadliest corporate crime in U.S. history.”The families made their request Wednesday in a 32-page letter that was sent by attorney Paul Cassell and obtained by HuffPost.
All 157 people on board an Ethiopian Airlines flight to Kenya were killed when the pilot lost control of the aircraft in March 2019; less than five months earlier, a Lion Air flight crashed into the sea around Indonesia, killing all 189 people on board. Both of the planes involved were Boeing 737 Max 8s.after a panel blew off the side of an Alaska Airlines flight over Oregon. Suction created by the gaping hole in the plane was strong enough to pull passengers’ personal items outside.
The crash victims’ families suggested that the previous CEO, Dennis Muilenburg, who was fired in 2020, be among those prosecuted for alleged criminal negligence.
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