Boeing Breached 2021 Settlement Related to Fatal Max 8 Crashes, Justice Department Says
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The Justice Department has determined that Boeing violated the terms of its deferred prosecution agreement related to the Max 8 fatal crashes. It’s unclear whether the DOJ will now pursue a criminal prosecution into the plane maker.
Federal prosecutors have found that Boeing violated the terms of its 2021 deferred prosecution agreement related to the Max 8, the aircraft that was linked to two fatal crashes in 2018 and 2019.
“Boeing is subject to prosecution by the United States for any federal criminal violation,” federal prosecutors wrote in a letter to Northern Texas District Judge Reed O’Connor on Tuesday.&n
