More than five years after two 737 MAX crashes killed 346 people, families of the victims are still pushing the Justice Department to hold Boeing accountable. They’re frustrated by the response.
More than five years after the crashes of two 737 Max jets killed 346 people, families who lost loved ones are still pushing the U.S. Justice Department to hold Boeing accountable.
Family members and their lawyers met with federal prosecutors for five hours on Wednesday.
They emerged frustrated and disappointed.
“I’m left with the question of what was the point? What did I come here for?,” said Zipproah Kuria, who flew in from London for the meeting. Her father Joseph Kuria was on his way to Kenya, where he was born, to do philanthropic work when he was killed in the crash of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 in March 2019.
Boeing has paid out billions of dollars in settlements from a pair of crashes in 2018 and 2019 that were caused by faulty flight control software. But the company and its leaders have largely avoided criminal prosecution after reaching an agreement with the Justice Department that essentially put the company on probation.
