Some of the victims’ family members are fighting to break off Boeing’s negotiations with the Justice Department. The crash victims’ families asked O’Connor to arraign Boeing in December 2021, but the request was put on hold as the judge considered their status as official crime victims. O’Connor ruled in October that people killed in the two Boeing 737 MAX crashes are legally considered “crime victims,” and family members urged him to require Boeing to be arraigned on the felony charge. Federal prosecutors argued that the law didn’t apply to them because they couldn’t prove that those who died in the 737 Max crashes were crime victims. “From my point of view, and I think I can speak for all the victims’ families, the Justice Department failed us.

Source: Ethiopian News January 26, 2023 00:22 UTC