US to criminally charge Boeing over two fatal 737 Max crashes and seek guilty plea, sources say

Members of a rescue team bring items and wreckage ashore at a port in North Jakarta after they were recovered from the sea where Lion Air flight JT610 crashed on Oct 29, 2018. The US Justice Department will criminally charge Boeing with fraud over two fatal crashes involving 737 MAX jets and ask the planemaker to plead guilty or face a trial, two people familiar with the matter said on Sunday .

The Justice Department is pushing Boeing to plead guilty, according to several people who heard federal prosecutors detail a proposed offer on Sunday. The Justice Department decided to charge Boeing after finding it violated a 2021 agreement that had shielded it from prosecution over the fatal crashes involving two 737 MAX jets. Prosecutors alleged at the time that Boeing misled regulators who approved the 737 Max and set pilot-training requirements to fly the plane. The company blamed two relatively low-level employees for the fraud.

“We are upset. They should just prosecute,” said Massachusetts resident Nadia Milleron, whose 24-year-old daughter, Samya Stumo, died in the second of two 737 Max crashes. “This is just a reworking of letting Boeing off the hook.” Sanjiv Singh, a lawyer for 16 families who lost relatives in the October 2018 Lion Air crash off Indonesia, called the plea offer “extremely disappointing.” The terms, he said, “read to me like a sweetheart deal".

However, federal agencies can give waivers to companies that are convicted of felonies to keep them eligible for government contracts. Lawyers for the crash victims’ families expect that would be done for Boeing.

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