During the investigation, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) in Portland, Oregon, USA saw that the Boeing 737-9 MAX of Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 was forced to make an emergency landing, with a gap in the fuselage and the fuselage plug area on January 7, 2024. day.
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U.S. prosecutors plan to seek plea boeing company Lawyers for the families of the victims said on Sunday they were dismissing a potential agreement as a “sweetheart deal” over charges related to two fatal crashes of 737 Max jets.
Attorneys for the Justice Department, the victims’ families and their attorneys spoke for about two hours Sunday, attorneys said.
Boeing declined to comment and it was unclear whether it would accept the plea deal. The Justice Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The U.S. Justice Department said in May it was reviewing whether Boeing violated a 2021 settlement that protected boeing company from federal charges. The company agreed to pay a $2.5 billion fine over conspiracy charges involving its best-selling 737 Max aircraft in 2018 and 2019 that killed all 346 people on both flights.
The Justice Department revisits the agreement after a door panel explodes in mid-air on a new 737 Max 9 aircraft Alaska Airlines The January flight sparked a new safety and quality control crisis for one of the world’s two largest suppliers of commercial aircraft.
Boeing has admitted that two of its pilots deceived the Federal Aviation Administration by concealing the fact that a new flight control system was installed on the plane before it entered commercial flight. The U.S. Department of Justice said in 2021 that the system was later linked to two crashes.
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