USA: Boeing pleads guilty to fraud to avoid criminal trial

USA: Boeing pleads guilty to fraud to avoid criminal trial


A worker sets up models of Boeing airliners at the company's booth for the upcoming Singapore Airshow on Sunday, Feb. 9, 2014.

In the United States, the Justice Department announced that Boeing has agreed to plead guilty to a criminal fraud charge related to two deadly crashes of 737 Max airliners.

A federal judge will weigh the plea and sentence that are part of the agreement reached between the aerospace giant and U.S. prosecutors.

In October 2018, a Boeing 737 MAX crashed into the Java Sea 13 minutes after takeoff from Jakarta, Indonesia, killing 189 people; and another 6 minutes after takeoff from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, killing 157 people.

Boeing's decision came a week after the Justice Department gave the company the choice between a guilty plea and a trial.

Prosecutors say Boeing violated a 2021 agreement that shielded it from prosecution.

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