Source: US News & World Report
“A U.S. judge on Wednesday will hold a hearing on whether to approve a deal between the Justice Department and Boeing that allows the planemaker to avoid prosecution on a charge stemming from two fatal 737 MAX plane crashes that killed 346 people. Judge Reed O’Connor in Texas will consider objections from relatives of some of those killed in the crashes in Indonesia in 2018 and Ethiopia in 2019 to the agreement that enables Boeing to escape oversight from an independent monitor for three years. … Some family members argue dismissal of the charge is not in the public interest, citing O’Connor’s statement in 2023 that ‘Boeing’s crime may properly be considered the deadliest corporate crime in U.S. history.'” (09/03/25)