During the investigation, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) in Portland, Oregon, USA saw that the Boeing 737-9 MAX of Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 was forced to make an emergency landing, with a gap in the fuselage and the fuselage plug area on January 7, 2024. day.
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U.S. prosecutors plan to seek plea boeing company Lawyers for the families of the victims said on Sunday they were dismissing a potential agreement as a “sweetheart deal” over charges related to two fatal crashes of 737 Max jets.
Justice Department attorneys, victims’ families and their attorneys met for about two hours Sunday to discuss the plan, attorneys said.
Boeing declined to comment and it was unclear whether it would accept the plea deal. A guilty plea could complicate his ability to obtain government contracts. Boeing is a major defense contractor.
The Justice Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The U.S. Justice Department said in May it was reviewing whether Boeing violated a 2021 settlement that shielded the company from federal charges related to 2018 and 2019 crashes of its best-selling 737 Max aircraft that resulted in All 346 people on both flights died. Under the agreement, Boeing said it would pay $2.5 billion.
The U.S. Department of Justice revisited protocol After a new 737 Max 9 door panel exploded from the air during flight Alaska Airlines The January flight sparked a new safety and quality control crisis for one of the world’s two largest suppliers of commercial aircraft. The so-called deferred prosecution agreement was set to expire days before the door panel exploded.
Boeing admitted in 2021 that two of its pilots deceived the Federal Aviation Administration by concealing the addition of a new flight control system before the planes entered commercial flight. The system was later implicated in two accidents.
One of the attorneys, Paul Cassell, said the plea agreement would require Boeing to pay an additional fine of about $247 million and require the installation of external monitors at Boeing. Cassell called the new agreement “a slap in the face.”
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