Aircraft maker Boeing has agreed to plead guilty to a criminal fraud conspiracy charge relating to two fatal crashes of its 737 MAX jets according to a court filing by the U.S. government on Sunday.
A Justice Department official said that the plea still requires a federal judge’s approval, and would give the company a criminal record.
Boeing will also be fined 243.6 million dollars.
This comes after the Justice Department in May found Boeing to be violating the terms of its probation over charges stemming from crashes in 2018 and 2019 which killed 346 people.
The crashes prompted a probe into the company’s manufacturing standards, and Boeing was charged in 2021 of conspiracy to defraud regulators, allegedly deceiving the Federal Aviation Administration over its MCAS flight control system, for which it was given the three-year probation.
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