DOJ confirms deal to drop Boeing prosecution over deadly crashes

WASHINGTON — The Department of Justice told a federal judge on Friday that it had reached an agreement in principle with Boeing to drop a criminal case over two fatal crashes of 737 MAX jets, despite objections from family members of some crash victims.

It’s the latest turn in a long-running legal saga following the fatal crashes of two 737 MAX jets, in 2018 and 2019, that killed 346 people.

The Justice Department reached a deferred prosecution agreement with Boeing in 2021, during the first Trump administration. But prosecutors changed course under President Biden, reviving the criminal case against the aerospace giant. Boeing agreed last year to plead guilty to defrauding regulators, but a federal judge rejected that proposed plea deal.

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