Boeing Deal With DOJ Proves That ‘Justice’ Is a Slippery Concept

‘It’s not fair’: Indonesia’s Lion Air crash families decry Boeing 737 Max deal

Under the deal, Boeing would pay US$1.5 billion and avoid trial over its handling of 737 Max safety issues.

Boeing receives sweetheart deal to avoid criminal prosecution over 737 MAX crashes

The transformation of Boeing’s legal predicament from a criminal fraud conviction to a complete dismissal of charges represents the calculated intervention of the American state on behalf of the military-industrial complex.

How to kill 346 people and get away with it

People stand near collected debris at the crash site of Ethiopian Airlines on March 11, 2019. (MICHAEL TEWELDE/AFP via Getty Images)On October 29, 2018, a Boeing 737 MAX operated by Lion Air crashed into the Java Sea about 13 minutes after taking off from an airport in Jakarta, Indonesia. All 189 people on board died. Less than five months later, on March 10, 2019, a 737 MAX operated by Ethiopian Airlines crashed shortly after takeoff, killing a…

Boeing Deal With DOJ Proves That ‘Justice’ Is a Slippery Concept

189 people lost their lives when Lion Air flight 610 crashed into the Java Sea, 13 minutes after taking off from Jakarta's Soekarno–Hatta International Airport.

Boeing has reached an interim agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice to pay $1.1 billion (€956 million) to avoid criminal charges for the two fatal accidents of 737 MAX.

The agreement includes the payment of $444.5 million to a fund for the families of the victims of these accidents, which occurred between October 2018 and March 2019 for an error in the design of their aircraft software, causing the death of 346 people.