Boeing to pay $2.5B over Max conspiracy charge
The Justice Department on Thursday said Boeing has agreed to pay more than $2.5 billion to resolve a charge that it conspired todefraudtheFederal Aviation Administration during its reviewof the 737Max, the airliner that was involved in a pair of deadly crashes that killed 346 people. David P. Burns, acting assistant attorney general for the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, said the crashes “exposed fraudulent and deceptive conduct by employees of one of the world’s leading commercial airplane manufacturers.”
The Justice Department said Boeing has admitted that two of its technical pilots deceived federal safety regulators about a software system that was implicated in both crashes.