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"Families of the victims of two Boeing 737 Max 8 crashes in Ethiopia and
Indonesia have demanded that the plane maker be criminally prosecuted and fined
$25bn for “the deadliest corporate crime in US history”.
In a letter to the US justice department, Paul Cassell, an attorney for 15
victims’ families, said that the amount is “legally justified and clearly
appropriate”, but could be significantly reduced if Boeing improved safety
standards and agreed to an independent monitor.
The letter comes after Boeing’s CEO, Dave Calhoun, stood and apologized to the
families of the twin accidents’ 346 victims, saying everyone at Boeing was
“‘deeply sorry for your losses”, at a Senate hearing in Washington DC.
Senators called on the company to fix its “broken safety culture”. The air
crashes involving the 737 Max came in 2018, when a Lion Air jet crashed into
the Java Sea, killing all 189 people on board, and in early 2019 when an
Ethiopian Airlines plane crashed near Addis Ababa, killing 157.
Both crashes were blamed on a faulty anti-stall system that the pilots of the
planes had not been instructed on how to operate and had pushed the aircraft
into fatal dives.
Boeing and the justice department did not immediately respond to the petition."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
