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Boeing will plead guilty to fraud related to fatal 737 Max crashes | Survivors of crash victims have criticized pending agreement with the Justice Department as a “sweetheart deal.”
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.
The plea underscores the long shadow of the deadly crashes and also comes at time when Boeing is trying to restore the trust of regulators and the flying public amid a fresh safety crisis that began in January when a panel flew off the side of a newer model Max midflight. 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.The automated system implicated in the crashes — which was supposed to push the nose of the jet down inlimitedcircumstances — was needed because of new, larger engines on the Max. A preliminary report by the National Transportation Safety Board, which is investigating what caused the Jan. 5 accident, found that bolts designed to hold the door panel were not replaced after the part was removed to make repairs to another portion of the jet as it moved through final assembly at Boeing’s Renton, Wash., factory.
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