Nadia Milleron, whose girl Samya Stumo was killed successful the clang of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302, holds a motion with photos of the clang victims during a Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee proceeding connected aviation information and the aboriginal of the Boeing 737 Max aircraft, successful the Hart Building successful Washington, D.C., Oct. 29, 2019.
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A national justice successful Texas connected Thursday astatine the petition of the Department of Justice dismissed a criminal case against Boeing implicit 2 crashes of its 737 Max jetliner, contempt expressing skepticism astir the contented of dropping that prosecution.
Some families of victims of the crashes had powerfully opposed the DOJ's determination successful May asking Judge Reed O'Connor to dismiss the case successful U.S. District Court successful Fort Worth.
A full of 346 radical had been killed successful the 2 crashes. The archetypal crash, of Lion Air Flight 610 successful Indonesia occurred successful precocious October 2018, and the 2nd crash, of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302, occurred astir 5 months later, successful March 2019.
Boeing connected Wednesday reached settlements successful 3 lawsuits filed by families of victims of the 2nd crash, aft a assemblage had been selected for the proceedings of 1 of those cases successful Chicago national court.
The DOJ criminally charged Boeing successful January 2021 with conspiracy to defraud the United States for the company's alleged obstruction of the Federal Aviation Administration's valuation of the Max's maneuvering characteristics augmentation system.
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