US justice department says Boeing violated $2.5bn settlement agreement

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) said Boeing has breached its 2021 $2.5bn settlement agreement that allowed the airframe manufacturer to avoid criminal prosecution following fatal crashes on a Lion Air flight in 2018 and an Ethiopian Airlines flight in 2019 on 737 MAX aircraft that killed a total of 346 people. The DOJ has until July 7, 2024, to decide whether it will pursue charges against Boeing. The DOJ had said in a court filing that the US aircraft manufacturer had failed to ensure a compliance and ethics program was put in place and enforced to ensure violations of