The Justice Department recently announced that Boeing has violated the terms of its 2021 settlement, which allowed the company to avoid prosecution for its role in two fatal crashes involving the 737 Max jetliners. The crashes, which occurred in Indonesia in 2018 and Ethiopia in 2019, claimed the lives of 346 individuals.
Prosecutors found that Boeing had committed fraud against the United States by deceiving the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) regarding a critical flight-control system implicated in the accidents. As part of the settlement, Boeing agreed to a deferred prosecution agreement and paid $2.5 billion to its airline customers.
