Advertisement

Drudge Retort: The Other Side of the News
Thursday, June 05, 2025

A lawyer for 16 families of the victims of a fatal Boeing 737 Max crash, has told the BBC that a deal between the aviation giant and the US Justice Department (DOJ) is "morally repugnant". The firm said it agreed to pay $1.1bn (811.5m) to avoid prosecution over two crashes that killed 346 people, in a filing on Wednesday.

More

Alternate links: Google News | Twitter

"Boeing is committed to complying with its obligations under this resolution, which include a substantial additional fine and commitments to further institutional improvements and investments," said a company spokesperson. If the deal is approved by a federal judge the plane maker will avoid a criminal fraud trial. "The [DOJ] agreed that it will not further criminally prosecute the company", said Boeing in a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing.

Comments

Admin's note: Participants in this discussion must follow the site's moderation policy. Profanity will be filtered. Abusive conduct is not allowed.

"The deal includes the company paying $444.5m to families of crash victims. It will also put $455m towards improving its compliance, safety and quality programmes"

So a bit over a million per death.
And some dough for doing what should routinely be done.
Sure does pay to have leverage in this country.
If you're a passenger, though?
Fuhgedaboudit, meat at a bargain price.

#1 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-06-06 06:23 AM | Reply

How much did Boeing agree to put into Felon47's bribery box...errr...I mean super PAC?

#2 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-06-06 07:33 AM | Reply

"So a bit over a million per death."

That is pretty low.

It's usually more like $2M.

And that's when it's a genuine accident, not a fraudulent aircraft.

#3 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-06-06 09:02 AM | Reply

The following HTML tags are allowed in comments: a href, b, i, p, br, ul, ol, li and blockquote. Others will be stripped out. Participants in this discussion must follow the site's moderation policy. Profanity will be filtered. Abusive conduct is not allowed.

Anyone can join this site and make comments. To post this comment, you must sign it with your Drudge Retort username. If you can't remember your username or password, use the lost password form to request it.
Username:
Password:

Home | Breaking News | Comments | User Blogs | Stats | Back Page | RSS Feed | RSS Spec | DMCA Compliance | Privacy

Drudge Retort