2024-07-08 15:47:49
The American giant agreed to plead guilty and pay a fine to avoid a conviction, which would have cut off its access to Pentagon and NASA contracts.
The law is useful. The United States does not want to sign Boeing’s death warrant. The activities of the American giant in aeronautics, defense and space are too strategic and sovereign for Washington to let go of the manufacturer, which was involved in the two fatal 737 Max crashes in October 2018 and March 2019. Boeing actually escaped the criminal trial with an uncertain outcome. result, which may have closed public access to contracts with the Pentagon and NASA. This, after it is finished, “general agreement on terms of settlement with DoJ (Department of Justice, Editorial Note)”announced this Monday, the American manufacturer.
The latter pleaded guilty to the current criminal charge (filed in 2021 in a Texas court, Editor’s Note) for “Conspiracy to deceive US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in certification of 737 Max”. Everything has been done to avoid the worst for this symbol, which now falls from America,…
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