Victims’ Families Urge Rejection of Boeing 737 Max Settlement, Request Special Prosecutor

Some of the families of those who died in Boeing 737 MAX crashes have asked U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor to remove a lawsuit against The Boeing Company from the U.S. Department of Justice’s hands and instead appoint a “disinterested” special prosecutor “who will pursue justice without regard to institutional conflicts.” 

The families’ request was lodged Wednesday in the criminal fraud case the government brought against Boeing in January 2021 in the wake of two plane crashes in 2018 and 2019 that killed 346 people. The families filed their briefs after the government, on May 29, filed a motion to dismiss and informed the court it had entered a non-prosecution agreement with the aerospace manufacturing company.