Boeing’s plea agreement is largely symbolic given the company’s pattern of avoiding guilt and failing to enact meaningful ethical changes. The deal, however,...
Workers collect debris on March 12, 2019, at the scene where an Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 Max 8 crashed shortly after takeoff, killing all 157 on board, near Bishoftu, or Debre Zeit, south of Addis Ababa, in Ethiopia. On Sunday, July 7, 2024, the Justice Department said Boeing has agreed to plead guilty to a criminal fraud charge stemming from two deadly crashes of 737 Max jetliners.
But fundamental internal change faltered, and in a few years, the promises instead resulted in more transgressions. By 2015, as part of a broad-ranging civil agreement with the FAA, Boeing acknowledged lax production controls and safety lapses affecting factories of some suppliers as well as a number of its own plants.
In a highly unusual break from traditional Justice Department practice, prosecutors in 2021 explicitly spelled out they found no evidence that senior company officials participated in illegal activities. At the time, prosecutors concluded the misconduct was “neither pervasive across the organization nor facilitated by senior management.”
Boeing’s pattern of avoiding guilty pleas by fervently promising to change its culture and lock in permanent safeguards has conspicuously failed to prevent recurrent criminality.Yet the latest developments, which don’t provide immunity for any Boeing actions after the MAX crashes, provide a novel wrinkle. Separate from the formal guilty plea, the FAA has emphasized it was
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