Boeing will have a felony conviction if it follows through on an agreement with prosecutors to plead guilty to fraud in connection with the approval of its 737 Max before two of the planes crashed, killing 346 people.
Boeing will have a felony conviction if it follows through on an agreement with prosecutors to plead guilty to fraud in connection with the approval of its 737 Max before two of the planes crashed, killing 346 people off the coast of Indonesia and in Ethiopia .Related video above: Relatives of victims criticize Boeing plea dealThe American aerospace giant has apparently made the calculation that admitting to a crime is better than fighting the charge and enduring a long public trial.
How are relatives of the crash victims reacting?Many are outraged by the agreement.Zipporah Kuria, a 28-year-old London woman whose father, Joseph, was on the Ethiopian Airlines Max that crashed in March 2019, wanted a trial that she thinks would have unearthed new details about what led up to the crashes.
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