U.S. judge: passengers in fatal Boeing 737 MAX crashes ‘crime victims’

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In December, some crash victims’ relatives said the U.S. Justice Department violated their rights when it struck the January 2021 deferred prosecution agreement with the U.S. planemaker over two crashes that killed 346 people.

U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor ruled “the tragic loss of life that resulted from the two airplane crashes was a reasonably foreseeable consequence of Boeing’s conspiracy to defraud the United States.”