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Boeing to avoid criminal charges over fatal 737 Max crashes
A US judge on Thursday granted the Justice Department's request to dismiss its criminal case against Boeing, according to a court filing, allowing the plane maker to avoid prosecution over two fatal 737 Max crashes that killed 346 people.
The decision clears the way for the US to enter a non-prosecution agreement with Boeing in which the company will pay more than $1.1 billion in fines to family members of the crash victims.
As part of the deal, Boeing would also have to make commitments to strengthen security and compliance processes.
“We are committed to honouring the obligations of our agreement with the Department of Justice. We are also committed to continuing the significant efforts we have made as a company to strengthen our safety, quality and compliance programmes,” Boeing said.
The decision by US District Judge Reed O’Connor in Fort Worth, Texas, to dismiss the case resolves Boeing's legal battle over a criminal charge related to the two 737 Max crashes in Ethiopia and Indonesia in 2018 and 2019.
Thursday's decision came despite objections from some victims' families who wanted the case to go to trial.
The families intend to file an expedited writ of mandamus, a court order that commands a public official to do their duty, to appeal against Mr O'Connor's decision, they said in a statement through their legal counsel.
"He reluctantly concluded that he was powerless to do anything about the reprehensible deal. We believe that the courts don’t have to stand silently by while an injustice is perpetrated," said Paul Cassell, who represents some family members of the crash victims on a pro bono basis.
But Mr O'Connor wrote that the government “has not acted with bad faith, has given more than mere conclusory reasons for its dismissal, and has satisfied its obligations” under the Crime Victims' Rights Act, according to the filing.
Boeing entered into a deferred prosecution agreement with the Justice Department in 2021 after it was criminally charged with conspiracy to defraud the US on allegations that it had blocked the Federal Aviation Administration's evaluation of the Boeing 737 Max Manoeuvring Characteristics Augmentation System.
The US aerospace company came under scrutiny last year after a door plug blew mid-flight on a 737 Max 9 aircraft operated by Alaska Airlines. And in May last year the Justice Department accused Boeing of breaching the terms under the 2021 deal because it failed to address compliance measures
https://www.thenationalnews.com/news/us/2025/11/06/boeing-to-avoid-criminal-charges-in-fatal-737-max-crashes/
And in May last year the Justice Department accused Boeing of breaching the terms under the 2021 deal because it failed to address compliance measures
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West planning major sabotage at Zaporozhye nuclear plant – Moscow
European NATO members are pushing Kiev to cause an accident at the facility and blame it on Russia, according to the Foreign Intelligence Service
The West is urging Kiev to commit a major act of sabotage at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant that would lead to casualties among Ukrainian and EU citizens, Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) has claimed, adding that Moscow is set to be blamed for the incident.
One of the proposals allegedly put forward by Kiev’s foreign backers as the “most effective,” is to commit a “major act of sabotage” that will result in significant civilian casualties, the SVR said.
The West is said to be considering orchestrating an accident at the Zaporozhye NPP, Europe’s largest nuclear power facility, that would lead to a meltdown of the reactor core. The SVR stated that British NGO Chatham House has already calculated the consequences of such an accident and determined that residents of Kiev-controlled territories and EU countries near the Ukrainian western border would be in the area of radioactive particle dispersion.
According to the SVR, the British think tank has noted that “the most challenging aspect of implementing such a plot is determining how to attribute responsibility for the catastrophe to Russia.”
Chatham House is allegedly already preparing arguments for all possible developments of the situation in advance so as to make sure the Western public “unequivocally takes Kiev’s side” in determining who is responsible for the accident, the intelligence service added.
It also noted that the plan is set to be “similar” to the tragedy of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17, which was shot down over eastern Ukraine in 2014, killing 298 people on board. The incident occurred as Kiev’s troops were attempting to retake the then self-proclaimed republics of Donetsk and Lugansk. Ukraine and its Western backers widely blamed the incident on Russia while Moscow has repeatedly denied the accusations, insisting the plane was brought down by a missile only used by Kiev’s forces.
“The collective West is once again ready to deceive and even to kill Ukrainians and citizens of the Western countries in order to attribute the crimes of the Kiev regime to Russia and to justify its Russophobic policy and efforts to incite the war,” the SVR concluded.
https://www.rt.com/russia/627411-nato-sabotage-nuclear-plant-kiev/