Boeing has reached a multimillion-dollar agreement with the Federal Justice Department

New York – El Department of Justice has announced that it has unveiled an agreement with Boeing that the aeronautical company is paying $ 2,500 million to conduct an investigation into its 737 MAX aircraft by accusing it of harassing information about the death of the thief.

“The tragic accidents of Lion Air’s flight 610 in Ethiopian Airlines’ flight 302 expose fraudulent and engaging conduct on the part of employees of the world’s leading commercial aircraft manufacturers”, said in a statement the General Tax Officer and Functions David P. Burns, of the Criminal Division of the Department of Justice.

In agreement with the investigation, in 2016 two pilots responsible for discovering “an important change” in the 737 MAX flight control system (MCAS) and in a compartment with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Boeing ” information and engagement ”he said, that he had the manuals and training materials for his pilots not including data about them.

In October 2018, the Lion Air crash, which took place in Java Sea with 189 passengers, and in March 2019 the Ethiopian Airlines flight, which was flying around Bishoftu’s airport with 157 passengers, in both cases with Aircraft 737 MAX that, as revealed by the searches, descended rapidly due to a technical failure in the MCAS that could not be controlled by the pilots.

“Boeing employees will choose the front-wheel drive truck of the FAA to obtain material information on the operation of its 737 MAX aircraft and make an effort to locate its engine,” Burns said.

The monetary agreement includes a total of 244 million for the Justice and 500 million in compensation to the families of the bankruptcy cases, while 1,770 million are compromised to compensate Boeing customer airlines for the losses that provoke the paralysis 737 MAX as of second accident.

“This resolution is a serious record for all of us’s criticisms of what our obligation of transparency is with regulators, and the consequences that our company can face if any of us are complicit with our expectations,” he said in a statement. of Boeing, David Calhoun.

The scandal of the 737 MAX, which was Boeing’s jet aircraft, combined with the company in the face of the crisis of its history, increased the costs of cases 20,000 million debited to its veto and everywhere and giving its reputation while being investigations are a lengthy process of rehabilitation with international regulators. The FAA launched a Boeing flight on November 18, before the 737 MAX wanted to fly with passengers and had a week American Airlines operated the first flight in EE.UU. through its recertification, precisely in the midst of another crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic, which has hit the tourism sector with increasing debt to travel bans.

Boeing, which indicates that its quarterly results show an increase in multibillion-dollar imports, saw a 0.66% increase in wall-to-wall electronic transactions in response to Wall Street’s notices of bankruptcy.