Robert Clifford, an attorney representing crash victims, said DOJ is “afraid to prosecute a company that they believe is too big to fail.”
A Boeing 737 MAX aircraft is shown on the assembly line. Faulty flight control software on another version of the MAX had been blamed in the 2018 and 2019 crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia, which killed a total of 346 people.
An attorney for family members of some of those lost in the crash in Ethiopia suggested DOJ’s decision was born of cowardice. DOJ’s decision to pursue charges comes after weeks of deliberations, kicked off by a spate of new quality control problems at one of the United States’ most important manufacturers. It adds a grave element to accusations that Boeing, also a major defense and aerospace contractor for the federal government, has put short-term profits ahead of public safety.
Though nobody was seriously injured in that incident, it drew heightened attention to problems with its workhorse 737 MAX passenger jet, and with Boeing’s quality control. “It’s not the Department of Justice — it’s the ‘department of protecting corporations,’” Milleron said in an interview. Part of the plea deal, she said, will include a fine, and the mandate for Boeing to have a third-party monitor to oversee its work — which DOJ will have final say over, but that Boeing will ultimately get a say in, too.
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