a Boeing 737 Max plane in midair during an Alaska Airlines flight in January. Bloomberg News is reporting that the Justice Department willagainst the company, which can decide whether to fight them or take a deal that includes a US$243.6 million fine, the cost of hiring a corporate monitor for three years and a guilty plea. The government contends that the door-plug incident violated a
Boeing could fight the charges and seek a jury trial. The company has an argument that the deferred prosecution agreement, which was announced in January 2021, was aimed at the engineering department that developed the 737 Max and specifically the Flight Technical Team that tested the plane. This door-plug incident was completely different and didn’t involve the engineering department. The panel blew off because workers forgot to install the bolts to hold it in place. This was a factory problem, not a design one. It’s a bit curious that the amount of the new Justice Department fine matches the earlier one, which had a precise calculation based on savings on pilot training.
It doesn’t matter that the incident that spurred the government to reexamine the deferred prosecution agreement was unrelated to the crashes and in a different part of the company. It’s also unclear what kind of evidence the Justice Department may have in its back pocket.
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