Boeing's confession: 'We guilty for MAX accidents'. Maximized fine, but no trial

Boeing reached an agreement with the United States Department of Justice according to which Will plead guilty to the crime of conspiring to deceive the federal government in relation to the two accidents that in 2018 and 2019 involved as many 737 MAX 8 Of Indonesian Lion Air and Ethiopian Ethiopian Airlines. causing the death of 346 people. (LLBG Spotter photo - Wikimedia Commons)

The guilty plea agreement requires Boeing to also pay a fine of $487.2 million and that Invest at least $455 million over the next three years in programs aimed at increasing the safety of its production practices and aircraft.

The request for criminal proceedings against the U.S. manufacturer had originated from the lawyers of the 346 victims of the two accidents, and the agreement reached between the government and the company will allow the latter to be spared a trial which would, inevitably, have even greater consequences for his reputation.

The agreement reached on Sunday, July 7, comes after Boeing was deemed by the Justice Department last March to have been Defaulting on the agreement reached in 2021, under which the company had paid a fine of $243 million for the two incidents in 2018 and 2019, while at the same time pledging to Make significant improvements to its policies on the safety of its products.

Which is something in which Everett's company has been nothing short of. defaulter, seen especially the accident last January involving an Alaska Airlines MAX 9., which lost an airlock in flight minutes after takeoff from Portland.

The amount of fines imposed may seem modest (and it is a bit), but it needs to be added up to the 500 million dollars that Boeing paid as compensation to the families of the victims Of the two incidents in 2018 and 2019, at the1.7 billion paid to airlines that have seen deliveries of ordered planes stalled for nearly two years since the global grounding of all 737 MAXs and to the damage the company has suffered in terms of canceled and missed orders over the past two years. (SounderBruce photo - Wikimedia Commons)

Specifically, since the day of the accident on the Alaska flight, orders received by Boeing have plummeted and In the months of April and May, the company did not receive any orders for the MAX, while certification of the last two models of the aircraft, the MAX 7 and MAX 10 remains suspended. In all, according to reports in the New York Times, Boeing is believed to have accumulated Losses due to the MAX program of about $20 billion.

The guilty plea agreement will be formalized shortly at a hearing at which representatives of the families of the victims of the Lion Air and Ethiopian Airlines flights will also be able to speak and speak.

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