US EditionUS Justice Department reaches deal with Boeing to allow planemaker to avoid prosecution
- The U.S. Justice Department reached a deal with Boeing on May 23, 2025, allowing it to avoid criminal prosecution over the 737 Max crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia in 2018 and 2019.
- The deal follows Boeing's alleged deception of FAA regulators about the MCAS software, which caused two crashes killing 346 people and led to a 2021 criminal charge and settlement.
- Boeing agreed to pay over $1.1 billion, including $445 million to victims' families, must keep an independent compliance consultant, and the fraud charge will be dismissed once finalized.
- Paul Cassell, speaking on behalf of numerous families, expressed that the resolution ensures Boeing faces financial consequences, delivers closure and restitution to the victims’ families, and promotes improvements in airline safety, while some families and legislators called for more rigorous measures of responsibility.
- The agreement implies financial and compliance reforms but leaves some relatives disappointed for lack of prosecution, and Boeing's federal contractor status remains intact without a criminal conviction.
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Boeing and the U.S. federal government concluded an agreement on Friday, May 23, regarding the fatal accidents of its 737 Max owned by Lion Air and Ethiopian Airlines, in October 2018 and March 2019. But the arrangement terminates the criminal proceedings against the aircraft manufacturer, a news that provokes the anger of some of the victims' families.
Boeing to avoid prosecution over 737 Max crashes, works out deal with DOJ
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department has reached a deal with Boeing that will allow the airplane giant to avoid criminal prosecution for allegedly misleading U.S. regulators about the 737 Max jetliner before two of the planes crashed and killed 346 people, according to court papers filed Friday.
In 2018 and 2019, two Boeing crashes resulted in the death of 346 people. But the aircraft manufacturer will avoid a criminal conviction thanks to an agreement in principle with the US Department of Justice. €1.13 million will be paid to bereaved families, who claimed a trial.
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Boeing and the DOJ reached an agreement allowing the aerospace giant to avoid prosecution on criminal charges over two plane crashes that killed 346 people.
The US Department of Justice has reached a preliminary agreement with Boeing that allows it to pay a $1.1 billion fine, avoiding prosecution.
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