Boeing Will Plead Guilty to Criminal Fraud. Guess Who’s Going to Jail?

Boeing will plead guilty to criminal fraud charges dating to the years lead up to the crash of two 737 Max planes in 2018 and 2019 , according to an announcement from the U.S. Department of Justice ( DOJ ) on Sunday , first report by theAssociated Press . If the supplication deal is accept by a jurist , the caller will pay an extra fine of $ 243.6 million and nobody from Boeing will be going to clink . And kinsperson phallus of victims are not happy with the spot .

The charges staunch from aBoeing 737 Max crashin 2018 that kill 189 in Indonesia and a collapse in 2019 that killed 157 in Ethiopia . Subsequent investigation into Boeing uncover major concerns inside the fellowship about the safe of its planes , with one employee writingabout the Max in 2017 , “ this airplane is design by clown , who in bend are supervise by monkey . ”

Specifically , Boeing will plead guilty to a conspiracy to defraud the authorities by misleading the Federal Aviation Administration ( FAA ) about the safety of its sheet . The fresh agreement imposes a fine identical to the one it paid in a 2021 colony with the Justice Department that allowed it to avoid criminal prosecution in the first place . But DOJ alleges Boeing violated the deal and it had until this weekend to plead hangdog under the condition set out by the department or face up a trial .

The exterior of the Boeing Company headquarters is seen on March 25, 2024 in Arlington, Virginia.

The exterior of the Boeing Company headquarters is seen on 18 December 2024 in Arlington, Virginia.© Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images

“ abortion of judge is a consummate understatement in describing this , ” Zipporah Kuria , who lost her founder Joseph in the Ethiopian Airlines crash in 2019 , toldCNN in a assertion . “ It is an terrible abomination . I trust that , God forbid , if this happen again the DOJ is reminded that it had the chance to do something meaningful and instead chose not to . ”

Boeing confirm to Gizmodo on Monday that the company had pass on a deal in rationale with the DOJ , “ subject to the memorialization and approval of specific term . ” But Boeing ’s problem are far from over . As the AP take note , the supplication deal only covers conduct before the two crashes and does n’t give immunity for any other late exit , like the incident in January when a door ballyhoo just fell off a 737 Max flight control by Alaska Airlines .

All of this comes as the FAA has place an review of the O masks on 2,600 Boeing plane , allot to a new story fromReuters . The concern is that masks on 737 MAX and NG are switch out of place , which does n’t provide them to work properly .

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