Boeing 737 Passengers Killed in Crashes are Crime Victims, District Judge Rules
U.S. District Judge Reed O'Connor ruled that “but for Boeing's criminal conspiracy to defraud the (Federal Aviation Administration), 346 people would not have lost their lives in the crashes."
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A U.S. judge in Texas has ruled that victims of two Boeing 737 MAX plane crashes are victims of a crime, rescinding the airplane maker’s immunity, David Shepardson reports for Reuters. Families of the victims accused the Justice Department last year of violating their legal rights by striking a deferred prosecution deal with Boeing over the 2018 and 2019 Boeing 737 MAX crashes that killed 346 people and granting Boeing immunity from criminal prosecution. In his decision Friday, U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor ruled that “but for Boeing’s criminal conspiracy to defraud the (Federal Aviation Administration), 346 people would not have lost their lives in the crashes.”
