The families of the 346 people who died in the plane crashes contend the plea agreement is a ‘sweetheart’ deal that doesn’t go far enough in holding Boeing or its executives accountable
The parent of one of the victims of a Boeing 737 Max8 crash in Ethiopia speaks during a news conference in Washington, on June 18.A federal judge is set to hold a hearing on Friday to consider objections from relatives of people killed in two Boeing 737 Max crashes to the U.S. plane maker’s agreement to plead guilty to conspiring to defraud regulators.and federal prosecutors arguing he should accept the plea deal, and lawyers for the relatives urging him to reject it.
Prosecutors arrived at the plea agreement after an extensive investigation and a series of meetings with the families, they said. “Yet in the end,” the prosecutors said in an August court filing, DOJ officials have “not found the one thing that underlies the families’ most passionate objections to the proposed resolution: evidence that could prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Boeing’s fraud caused the deaths of their loved ones.
Boeing in July finalized the agreement with prosecutors requiring the plane maker to plead guilty to fraud in connection with the two fatal plane crashes. That finding followed a separate January in-flight blowout that exposed ongoing safety and quality issues at Boeing. A panel blew off a new Boeing 737 Max 9 jet during a Jan. 5 Alaska Airlines flight, just two days before the 2021 agreement shielding Boeing from prosecution over the previous fatal crashes expired.
A guilty plea, should the judge accept it, would brand Boeing a convicted felon for conspiring to defraud the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration about problematic software affecting the flight-control systems in the planes.
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