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Boeing Has Four Weeks to Stop Possible Prosecution Over Crashes
- Company could be forced to plead guilty, hire outside monitor
- Aircraft giant unlikely to lose lucrative government contracts
The January incident, during which a door plug blew off an Alaska Airlines plane after takeoff, raised questions about Boeing’s internal controls.
Source: NTSB
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Boeing Co. has four weeks to convince the US not to prosecute the company after finding it breached a 2021 agreement protecting it from criminal charges following two fatal crashes.
The US industrial giant faces significant scrutiny by the Justice Department after a string of safety failures. But the government can go only so far in handcuffing the nation’s leading planemaker and key defense contractor.