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Boeing Crash Victims’ Families Seek to Help DOJ’s Criminal Probe
- Families of 737 Max crash victims to meet with prosecutors
- They want Boeing to be held accountable for 346 deaths
US Justice Department officials will meet Wednesday with families of Boeing Co. 737 Max crash victims even as they investigate the company’s operations in the wake of the recent near-catastrophic blowout of a fuselage panel mid-flight.
The department has a July deadline to determine whether Boeing violated a deferred-prosecution agreement put in place after 737 Max crashes in 2018 and 2019 that killed 346 people. The review now includes looking at problems related to the blowout on an Alaska Airlines flight on Jan. 5. If Boeing violated the agreement, the company could face criminal charges.