{"id":135862,"date":"2023-01-20T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-20T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/?p=135862"},"modified":"2023-01-21T00:09:27","modified_gmt":"2023-01-21T00:09:27","slug":"boeing-ordered-to-be-arraigned-on-charge-in-737-max-crashes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aviacionaldia.com\/en\/2023\/01\/boeing-ordered-to-be-arraigned-on-charge-in-737-max-crashes.html","title":{"rendered":"Boeing ordered to be arraigned on charge in 737 Max crashes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A federal judge has ordered Boeing <\/strong>to be arraigned on a felony charge stemming from crashes of two 737 Max jets, a ruling that threatens to unravel an agreement Boeing negotiated to avoid prosecution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ruling by a judge in Texas came after relatives of some of the victims said the government violated their rights by reaching a settlement with Boeing without first notifying the families.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

U.S. District Court Judge Reed O\u2019Connor ordered Boeing to send a representative to his courtroom in Fort Worth Jan. 26 for arraignment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judge\u2019s ruling is a narrow one that does not guarantee Boeing will face prosecution. That, however, remains the goal of lawyers for relatives of some of the 346 people killed in the crashes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2192 Investigate into incident where two aircraft were at risk of collision in New York City<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of those lawyers, Paul Cassell, said the Justice Department could stand by the settlement even after the arraignment and a hearing at which passengers\u2019 survivors are expected to speak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBut we believe this was such a rotten deal that \u2026 (the Justice Department) can and should, after hearing from the victims, re-do the deal,\u201d Cassell said. \u201cThey should be prosecuted.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judge has not ruled yet on a separate motion by lawyers for the families to strip Boeing\u2019s immunity from prosecution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The families accuse the government of cutting a secret deal with Boeing without telling them about the negotiations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

O\u2019Connor ruled last year that the relatives are crime victims under federal law and should have been consulted before the Justice Department agreed to a deal under which Boeing paid $2.5 billion to avoid prosecution on a criminal count of defrauding federal regulators who approved the 737 Max.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most of the money from the settlement went to airlines that couldn\u2019t use their Max jets for nearly two years after the planes were grounded worldwide. Boeing agreed to pay a $243.6 million fine and create a $500 million fund to compensate victims\u2019 families.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first passenger flight of a Max took place in May 2017. The crashes occurred in October 2018 in Indonesia and less than five months later in Ethiopia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By David Koenig – AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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