Boeing ordered to be arraigned on charge in Max crashes

So if convicted, Boeing will be given the death penalty (dissolution),right?

I think the judge should throw the book at them.

And the 373 MAX should be banned because it's inherently unstable:

The new, high-bypass engines (how it achieves it's higher efficiency vs old 373s) are too large for the plane and have been placed higher to fit them under the wing, creating instability. If Boeing was responsible, they would have redesigned the aircraft to fit the engines. In an act of criminal greed, they did not. And decided to instead use software to constantly correct the plane from pitching it's nose upward and stalling.

The 373 MAX, because of this design flaw, will never be as safe as other aircraft and will constantly rely on error-prone software corrections informed by error-prone sensors.

After their 'merger' with MD, they went from an organisation focusing on engineering excellence to one that only looked at the bottom line, driven by accountants.

Now they are paying the price.

Good.

It was obvious they knew they had a problem after the first crash. To keep them flying deserves conviction.

If the rule of law prevails they will be put out of business. In true American fashion, no one goes to jail, the company is bought on the cheap or merged and the taxpayer spends a fortune.

Company leadership needs to be held accountable for their services and products, including possible jail time if found to be negligent. Being a company shouldn't shield the board or CxO people from personal, criminal, liability.

And for every $1M in fraud, that's at least 1 yr in jail. I'd like to see Musk's face if this ever happened.

After their 'merger' with MD, they went from an organisation focusing on engineering excellence to one that only looked at the bottom line, driven by accountants.

After the merger so many top Boeing executives were replaced by McDonnel Douglas executives and the Boeing culture displaced by the MD culture that the joke in aviation circles was that MD bought Boeing with Boeing's money.

This is an interesting legal dispute where a district judge is basically throwing out an existing civil settlement that precluded Federal prosecution on criminal charges. If the DoJ refuses to prosecute, honoring their previous settlement, I don't see a mechanism for criminal charges to be filed. The judge cannot file charges (the US does not have prosecuting judges in the manner of those in France or Spain, US judges are required to remain neutral) and the aggrieved cannot do without a Federal Prosecutor doing so for them. Likewise I do not believe a judge can direct the DoJ to prosecute Boeing as that would be a violation of the separation of powers. A judge could vacate the settlement and that would allow civil cases against Boeing to proceed, but it would still be solely up to the DoJ to prosecute Boeing on criminal charges. It will be interesting to see how this plays out.