US needs more time to finalize Boeing MAX plea deal: filing
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New York: The Justice Department is aiming to file a plea agreement with Boeing next week over two fatal crashes of the 787 MAX jet, the agency said i...
New York: The Justice Department is aiming to file a plea agreement with Boeing next week over two fatal crashes of the 787 MAX jet, the agency said in a court filing reviewed by AFP on Friday.
The government "expects that the earliest it could file the plea agreement is Wednesday, July 24, 2024," the department said in a filing late Thursday.
Boeing and DOJ announced an accord earlier this month in which the aviation giant consented to enter a guilty plea to a fraud charge over the certification of the 737 MAX.
The DOJ said at the time it would file the plea agreement by July 19.
While the two parties "have made substantial progress" in the case, an extension is needed to address "corporate formalities" and other issues before submitting the document to a Texas federal court.
