Boeing agreed to take a plea deal offered by the Justice Department to avoid a trial for its role in fatal plane crashes in 2018 and 2019 that killed 346 people.
to plead guilty to conspiring to defraud the government in a case linked to crashes of its 737 Max jets in Indonesia and Ethiopia that killed 346 people — a stunning turn for the aerospace giant after the Justice Department determined that Boeing failed to live up to terms of a 2021 deal to avoid prosecution.
The agreement also included one thing crash victims’ families long sought: a meeting with Boeing’s board of directors. The criminal case delved back into the design of the Max, an updated version of the hugely popular single-aisle 737. Boeing was racing to get the plane into service in the 2010s, locked in competition with its European rival Airbus, which was also offering a new model.
by a federal jury in 2022 on charges of lying to the Federal Aviation Administration about changes to the software system. His defense argued publicly before trial that the pilot, Mark Forkner, was being scapegoated.Boeing agreed to pay $500 million to the families of those whose loved ones died, strengthen its internal programs to detect and prevent future incidents of fraud and cooperate with future investigations or prosecutions.
“I have long said that the greatest failure of the old is that it did not create an effective monitor,” he said via email. “But the two sides are likely to fight fiercely on what power the monitor should have.”Relatives of crash victims have pushed prosecutors to take a harder line against the aerospace giant, particularly after the midair blowout earlier this year.
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