In U.S. court, a fight over whether those killed on Boeing jets are “crime victims”
On Friday, after months of opposition from the Justice Department and Boeing, the families of some of those killed aboard Max jets more than three years ago sought to counter that contention in a federal court in Texas.
The immediate legal issue before O’Connor on Friday was whether those killed on Max jets were “directly and proximately harmed as a result of the commission of a federal offense,” the definition of crime victim under the act.Under that act, crime victims have a “reasonable right to confer with the attorney for the government in the case.” Relatives of 18 of those who were killed said that right was violated and that they want Boeing executives to face prosecution.
As part of the deferred prosecution agreement with the federal government signed in the final days of the Trump administration, Boeing admitted its employees “intentionally withheld and concealed” critical information about an automated flight control system, known as the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System , from an aircraft evaluation group at the FAA.Under the agreement, the Justice Department will drop its prosecution if Boeing meets certain conditions over more than three years.
“An inadequately trained pilot makes for an unsafe pilot,” his report said, adding the two crashes were caused by both a faulty MCAS and the lack of knowledge or training “on how to properly deal with” emergencies stemming from the system. In both crashes, the system repeatedly forced the noses of the planes down, overwhelming pilots who could not to keep the planes in the air, according to U.S. and foreign safety investigators.
According to a joint statement of facts from the Justice Department and Boeing in January 2021, the company in 2015 told the FAA aircraft evaluation group that the system could only activate in certain high-speed situations. The company later greatly expanded when the system would kick in, including flying at low speeds such as during takeoff.“Boeing disclosed this expansion to FAA personnel, but only to those personnel who were responsible for determining whether the 737 Max met U.S.
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