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Wednesday, July 24, 2024 9:17 AM

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July 8, 2024 - Boeing has agreed to plead guilty to one charge of conspiracy to defraud the United States for its role in two fatal 737 Max crashes, the Justice Department said in a court filing Sunday evening.

It represents yet another black eye for the company after a series of embarrassing safety blunders, but the agreement avoids what could have been more serious consequences.

It will pay up to $487 million in fines — a fraction of the $24.8 billion that families of crash victims wanted the aircraft maker to pay. The families of victims of two fatal crashes of the 737 Max oppose the deal, the department said.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/08/business/boeing-doj-criminal-charges/in
dex.html

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Wednesday, July 24, 2024 9:25 AM

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Boeing guilty plea in crash case delayed as US Justice Dept finalises deal

The plea agreement will allow Boeing to avoid a criminal trial after the Justice Department determined that the company breached a 2021 deferred-prosecution agreement over two fatal crashes

By Bloomberg | Jul 19 2024 | 8:26 AM IST

https://www.business-standard.com/world-news/boeing-guilty-plea-in-cra
sh-case-delayed-as-us-justice-dept-finalises-deal-124071900077_1.html

US prosecutors said they need more time to finalise an agreement with Boeing Co. in which the planemaker will plead guilty to criminal conspiracy in connection with two fatal crashes of its 737 Max jetliner.

While the parties have made “substantial progress” towards finishing the deal, prosecutors said in a Thursday court filing that next Wednesday is the earliest they will be able to file a final draft. The government had planned to submit the deal to a federal judge in Fort Worth, Texas, this week for approval.

Earlier this month, Boeing agreed in principle to plead guilty to the fraud charge. Under the pact, the company faces additional criminal fines and will install a corporate monitor. It will also be required to spend at least $455 million to bolster its compliance and safety programs over the next three years.

The plea agreement will allow Boeing to avoid a criminal trial after the Justice Department determined that the company breached a 2021 deferred-prosecution agreement over two fatal crashes in 2018 and 2019, which killed a combined 346 people. The DOJ had concluded Boeing failed to meet a requirement of that accord to implement an effective compliance program to prevent and detect violations of US fraud laws.

Families of the crash victims, who fought unsuccessfully to unwind the deferred-prosecution agreement, have filed a notice with the court indicating they plan to object to the terms of the latest deal.

The case is US v. Boeing, 21-cr-005, US District Court, Northern District of Texas (Fort Worth).

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Wednesday, July 24, 2024 9:30 AM

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United States v. The Boeing Company

Court Docket No.: 4:21-CR-005-O (N.D. Texas)

Latest Update:

On July 15, 2024, the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas issued a Scheduling Order for briefing on the plea agreement. Once the Government files the proposed plea agreement, representatives of victims of the crashes of Lion Air Flight 610 and Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302, and anyone else claiming the status of “crime victim” under the Crime Victims’ Rights Act, will have seven days to file any briefs in opposition to the plea agreement. The Government and Boeing will then have fourteen days to file briefs in response. And anyone who filed an initial brief in opposition will thereafter have five days to file briefs in reply.

Currently there is no proceeding scheduled before the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas. If the district court schedules a proceeding, whether about the proposed plea agreement or otherwise, more information will be provided on this website.

https://www.justice.gov/criminal/criminal-fraud/case/united-states-v-b
oeing-company

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Friday, July 26, 2024 5:52 AM

JAYNEZTOWN

Boeing finalizes plea deal with DOJ over misleading FAA during 737 MAX evaluation
https://www.yahoo.com/news/boeing-finalizes-plea-deal-doj-021700806.ht
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There was a time they hoped they would dominate everywhere, many contracts, with little Shuttles like the X-planes of the ColdWar, X-37 The Boeing Company a different time and a different mindset, X-45 the X-32 the X-20 Dyna-Soar the Boeing X-48 the Bird of Prey division for special projects at Area 51, Aircraft that might one day fly on Mars?
Boeing did it all experimental aircraft, seaplanes, airplanes, rotorcraft, rockets, satellites, and missiles and test projects and commercial flight.

and Boeing also does very unique strange experiment craft that people specualted were part of the photos seen in the UFO community and successful Commercial Space stuff, this discussion could go in the US Airpower thread or 'Space discussion but since it is now falling into the territory of a little bit of a screw-up I might put it here

So what's been going on with the culture at this company? For a while they moved out of Seattle to Chicago in 2001 but now that city dies, in Seattle locally we have seen reports of a rise in drugs and crime in the city the madness spread from California and New York into Seattle, Washington? they planned flying cars next? Boeing acquired autonomous eVTOL air taxi startup Wisk Aero

Starliner astronauts’ eight-day mission stretches towards eighth week
https://www.thetimes.com/world/us-world/article/boeing-starliner-retur
n-date-status-problems-b958t0bc6

NASA Should Ditch the Spin: Americans deserve more transparency about Boeing’s space-debut debacle.
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2024/07/boeing-nasa-starli
ner-astronauts-transparency/679223/

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Sunday, August 4, 2024 9:50 AM

JAYNEZTOWN

It's Sounding Like Boeing's Starliner May Have Completely Failed
https://futurism.com/the-byte/signs-boeing-starliner-completely-failed
It looks like NASA officials might be seeing the writing on the wall for the very troubled Boeing Starliner, which has marooned two astronauts up in space for almost two months due to technical issues.

Boeing 737 Max Crash Victims’ Families Object to DOJ Plea Deal
https://www.dallasnews.com/business/airlines/2024/07/31/boeing-737-max
-crash-victims-families-object-to-doj-plea-deal/

That feeling when, late on a Friday, you feel compelled to state that you have confidence in your spacecraft and then have to issue a correction.
https://x.com/jeff_foust/status/1819543200358715800

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Saturday, August 10, 2024 5:24 PM

JAYNEZTOWN

Boeing’s new CEO visits factory that makes the 737 Max, including jet that lost door plug in flight
https://www.fox44news.com/news/business-news/ap-boeings-new-ceo-visits
-factory-that-makes-the-737-max-including-jet-that-lost-door-plug-in-flight/

NASA inspector general gives damning assessment of Boeing's quality control
https://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/nasa-report-boeing-damning-asses
sments-rcna165813

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Monday, August 26, 2024 6:58 AM

JAYNEZTOWN

J.D. Vance, Trump Force 2 Make Emergency Landing In Wisconsin: Boeing 737 Issues Reach 2024 Campaign Trail

https://www.benzinga.com/news/24/08/40425735/j-d-vance-trump-force-2-m
ake-emergency-landing-in-wisconsin-boeing-737-issues-reach-2024-campaign-tr

Summary of Boeing Problems

https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2024/08/summary-of-boeing-problems.html

Boeing employees 'humiliated' that upstart rival SpaceX will rescue astronauts stuck in space: 'It's shameful'

https://nypost.com/2024/08/25/us-news/boeing-employees-humiliated-that
-spacex-will-save-astronauts-stuck-in-space/

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Friday, November 29, 2024 1:35 PM

JAYNEZTOWN

Boeing door plug process for 737 Max 9 is "concerning," air safety expert says
https://news.yahoo.com/news/boeing-door-plug-process-737-210300487.htm
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United 737-Max 9 suffered a hydraulic leak and needed an emergency landing

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Saturday, December 28, 2024 9:22 PM

JAYNEZTOWN

I don't think its a 737 Max

Jeju Air Flight 2216

Video shows crash of Jeju Air Flight 2216 in South Korea. 181 people on board
https://x.com/BNONews/status/1873174704720425440

South Korean news agency News1, fire officials estimate that more could be dead and warned that casualty numbers may rise as a result of the fire.

on the recent DHL crash, Lithuanian justice ministry, citing police investigations and analysis of the flight recorders, announced that it had found no "unlawful interference" in the crash. Germany's foreign minister Annalena Baerbock stressed that authorities in Germany and Lithuania were currently examining all possibilities.

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Sunday, December 29, 2024 9:40 PM

JAYNEZTOWN

SKorea

179 dead, 2 rescued

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Monday, December 30, 2024 8:26 AM

JAYNEZTOWN

Second Jeju Air plane experiences landing gear malfunction, same Boeing model involved

https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/2024-12-30/national/socialAf
fairs/Second-Jeju-Air-plane-experiences-landing-gear-malfunction-same-Boeing-model-involved/2211567

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Tuesday, December 31, 2024 4:02 AM

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SKorea

179 dead, 2 rescued

So, South Korea airport creates a concrete abutment at the end of their runway, 40 feet long and 5 feet high. So that any plane that hits it will explode in flames.

Planes are fragile. Lightweight, not tanks. The wings are the fuel tanks, and they flop around and flex with the stresses of wind/lift.

WTF? Airplanes are not Kias or Hyundais, made to be easily stolen.
This sounds like another DEI Hire error.

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Sunday, March 23, 2025 3:46 AM

JAYNEZTOWN

Boeing Sued Over Whistleblower’s Death—Family Files Wrongful Death Lawsuit Alleging Harassment Led to Suicide

https://cockpitking.com/boeing-sued-over-whistleblowers-death-family-f
iles-wrongful-death-lawsuit-alleging-harassment-led-to-suicide/

Seattle buy out and then a move to Chicago

not issued a legal rebuttal, but in a statement to the press, the company said it was “saddened” by Barnett’s death and extended “sympathies to his family."

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Thursday, June 12, 2025 6:12 AM

JAYNEZTOWN

Air India Flight 171 has crashed into a residential area, 787-8 was carrying 242 passengers and crew

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/2067675/doomed-air-india-171-boei
ng-flight-sent-final-radio-signal-seconds-after-take-off

The aircraft involved is a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner with registration VT-ANB
https://x.com/flightradar24/status/1933086087682904336

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https://x.com/RJTT_747forever/status/1933092599952457961
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https://x.com/Telegraph/status/1933095524682633388
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https://x.com/vijayaverma750/status/1933103870076395677

India to London Boeing crash

International passenger flight from Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport in Ahmedabad, India, to London Gatwick Airport

The crash took place in the early afternoon during routine takeoff procedures. Eyewitnesses from the Meghani Nagar area reported hearing multiple explosions, followed by thick plumes of smoke visible from nearby locations, including Dharpur.

also reports of foreigners on flight, 53 British, 7 Portuguese, and 1 Canadian national

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Thursday, June 12, 2025 3:18 PM

JAYNEZTOWN

Air India 787 crash is one of the worst accidents in modern aviation history,

British are sending their Investigating Team to Ahmedabad alongside US Team to investigate

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Thursday, June 19, 2025 8:31 PM

JAYNEZTOWN

it looks like Jew Israelis are hitting the Boeing 707 now maybe commercial, maybe have an excuse military transport who knows...maybe bunkers and missiles are too difficult to fight, an early American long-range narrow-body airliner for people
...another loss for Boeing but its ok because 'War'

Australia maybe doesn't want to get bombed while flying out on civilian airline, it has announced the closure of its Embassy in Iranian capital of Tehran,

maybe Iranian-Americans or American-Iranians get bombed now, but in a ways maybe others call them 'Goyim' or other names

Air India crash: Demand for emergency exit seats surges, flyers want to book ‘11A’
https://www.livemint.com/news/india/air-india-crash-demand-for-emergen
cy-exit-seats-surges-flyers-want-to-book-11a-after-ahmedabad-tragedy-report-11750359262476.html

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Friday, July 11, 2025 8:28 PM

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Air India 787 crash is one of the worst accidents in modern aviation history,

British are sending their Investigating Team to Ahmedabad alongside US Team to investigate

1) Preliminary report says fuel switches were cut off before Air India Boeing 787 crash

July 11, 2025 5:29 PM ET

https://www.npr.org/2025/07/11/nx-s1-5465063/air-india-boeing-787-cras
h-report

Includes the 15 pages of the report.

2) Engine fuel supply was cut just before Air India jet crash, preliminary report says

By Alexandra Skores, Aaron Cooper and Hira Humayun, CNN

Updated 6:45 PM EDT, Fri July 11, 2025

https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/11/india/air-india-crash-report-intl-latam

Includes a big picture of those fuel cutoff switches.

“In the cockpit voice recording, one of the pilots is heard asking the other why did he cutoff. The other pilot responded that he did not do so,” the report reads.

Shortly after, the switches were reversed back to where they should have been, and the engines were in the process of powering back up when the crash happened.

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Wednesday, July 23, 2025 2:53 PM

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Air India crash report raises questions about mental health care for pilots

Jul 15, 2025 6:30 PM EDT

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/air-india-crash-report-raises-questi
ons-about-mental-health-care-for-pilots

I have taken a look back. And going back to 1982, that's the first case I can find, it occurred with the Japan Airlines flight in Tokyo. There have been nine separate occurrences that could be attributed to the flight crew taking some sort of deliberate action, in other words, suicide and homicide.

Now, I am including the missing Malaysian Airliner MH370, and that's a controversial statement there, but most of the thinking right now is that that is what happened there. And that also includes this case in Air India. So nine separate incidents, more than 1,100 people dead throughout all of those incidents. So you couldn't say this is a common thing, but it's not something that is unprecedented either.

It's a rare occurrence, not something that I think people should worry about too terribly, but to the extent that it is very difficult to get at ways to solve it, it's something that the aviation community is grappling with.

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Friday, August 21, 2026 7:40 AM

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It will be interesting to see what the final investigation shows, but this is a blow to Boeing.

It took many years, but the real answer is finally known.

Download the 2026 movie about the Boeing 737 Max for free from
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The True Story Behind Freefall: A Reckoning for Boeing

By Rory Doherty | Aug 19, 2026 11:19 AM CT

https://time.com/article/2026/08/19/freefall-a-reckoning-for-boeing-do
cumentary/

For Boeing, Lion Air Flight 610 and Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 live in infamy. The first plane crashed in October 2018 in the Java Sea shortly after taking off, and the second crashed in central Ethiopia only five months later. Both were Boeing 737 Max aircrafts, a newer and more fuel efficient model that had was certified by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in 2017. Within two years of first entering into service, every 737 Max had been grounded after the same malfunction led to a combined total of 346 fatalities. Three years later, Netflix released Downfall: The Case Against Boeing, exploring how the company’s obsession with profit and maintaining a competitive edge led the former titan of aviation safety to the point of endangering anyone who flew their newest aircraft model—as well as Boeing’s efforts to deny their own complicity.

That was in 2022. This year, Freefall: A Reckoning for Boeing takes a wider look at Boeing’s continued reputation. “When we finished that film, Boeing ultimately had taken responsibility,” says Rory Kennedy, director of both documentaries. Speaking to TIME over Zoom, she says the company “assured the flying public, as well as the airlines and Congress, that it had learned its lesson and changed its ways. It did seem initially that it had made some corrections, but soon after the 737 Max got [back] into the air, I started seeing the headlines again.”

The need to return to the Boeing story

Kennedy has made documentaries about the Abu Ghraib torture scandal, the final weeks of the Vietnam War, and the impact that the death of her father—Robert F. Kennedy—had on her mother Ethel. Freefall is her first sequel, motivated, she says, by Boeing’s refusal to improve its once venerated, now dire safety standards. “I was getting approached by whistleblowers inside Boeing saying, not only had things not improved, but they were actually getting worse, and would I consider revisiting this?”

At a certain point, you didn’t need to be a whistleblower to recognize Boeing was struggling to improve its recent track record. In January 2024, a 737 Max 9 plane operated by Alaska Airlines lost a rear door plug in midair, plunging the 171 passengers into pure terror until the plane was able to land with no fatalities. An investigation found that Boeing had improperly fitted the outsourced fuselage and door plug parts in cost-cutting moves that once again resulted in danger. Kennedy was also motivated by a highly publicized but personally-felt tragedy—the death of prime whistleblower John Barnett, who by the end of his 32 years working in quality control at Boeing had made detailed reports on the company’s manufacturing negligence. In March 2024, Barnett was giving a lengthy deposition against Boeing in South Carolina when he failed to appear for his third day of testimony. He was later found dead in his truck from a gunshot wound that the Charleston County coroner described as self-inflicted. Barnett was a friend of Kennedy and lent his expertise to Downfall, and his interviews play throughout Freefall, forming what Kennedy calls a “defining thread" of the film.

“When we started, we didn't know what had happened to John Barnett, we didn't know how the Alaska Airline incident was going to unfold,” she says. “There were whistleblowers still working at Boeing coming forward and wanting their stories to be shared for the first time. Frankly it's one of the things I love about filmmaking, you're on a journey. We followed what was happening and pivoted as necessary to pay justice to the stories as they were unfolding.”

Still, to Kennedy the heart of the story is crystal clear. “If there was one reason I went back to make this film, it was because of John.”

Dreamliner, greed, and a reputational nosedive

By all accounts, Boeing used to be a great place to work. Headquartered in Seattle, Washington, the aviation company went from strength to strength in the postwar period and beyond, boosted by international aircraft sales and defence contracts. Safety and rigor was paramount, and engineers and quality inspectors held a lot of sway. As the narrator of an old company promotional film claims, Boeing’s ethos is to “make everything a little better than it needed to be.”

But the whistleblowers featured in Freefall, including Merle Meyers, Sam Salehpour, and Roy Irvin, found that Boeing’s former “safety culture” was scrapped in the modern era: quality inspectors were undermined and harassed for doing their job, the crews building the planes were less skilled or closely supervised, and outsourcing parts became the norm. The company’s $14 billion merger with aircraft producer McDonnell Douglas in 1997 confirmed their new trajectory—increasing shareholder value and lowering production costs, overseen by a series of CEOs like James McNerney and Dennis Muilenburg who had been mentored in Wall Street worship prior to taking the role.

While Downfall dips into the history of Boeing to explain why the new 737 Max aircraft was unsafe, Freefall paints a more revealing picture of a company contributing to its own decline. In 2009, Boeing opened a facility in North Charleston, South Carolina—a non-union state—to produce the Boeing 787 “Dreamliner” plane as cheaply and quickly as possible. The majority of the plane structure was outsourced from cheaper suppliers rather than being assembled in-house. The facility was soon full of shoddy engineering—ill-fitting pipes were sledgehammered into place, holes were found in aft body fuselage sections, and tiny metal slivers that were liable to cause massive electrical problems were found in the planes.

Barnett was one of many Seattle employees sent to South Carolina to work on the 787, where quality inspectors received a rude awakening on Boeing’s new safety culture. Management would dismiss and mock their complaints, discipline whoever spoke up, and demanded that recordings were deleted. In 2013, the entire 787 fleet was grounded after the plane’s lithium-ion batteries caused two separate electrical fires; a subsequent Al Jazeera investigation included clandestine recordings of Boeing employees joking about the Dreamliner’s haphazard and unsafe construction. To Kennedy, the footage was too revelatory to not use in her own film. “It’s so shocking to think that the people who are building the airplane won't get on the airplane.”

John Barnett was indicative of how Boeing treated whistleblowers

If Boeing grew careless in how it built planes, it was ruthless in how it responded to internal complaints. Barnett diligently documented all the faults at the Charleston facility after his attempts to use the official channels of complaint were met with dead air, or worse, harassment. Every few months, Boeing moved him from site to site in an effort to demoralize him and stop him from getting too comfortable, which actually meant that Barnett got to witness a wider range of defects and malpractices. Ultimately, he was disciplined and “benched” for not toeing the company line, and after his retirement in 2017, Barnett filed a defamation suit, accusing the company of deliberately harming his career after he spoke out against Boeing.

Barnett was back in South Carolina in March 2024, to give evidence on the hostile work environment in Charleston. His body was found in his truck on the morning of his scheduled third day of deposition. “He talks about how he's exhausted, and could he take some time off from the deposition? And the Boeing lawyers respond, “No. You can't take the time. You can't leave. You have to keep going.” And this is after years and years and years of just being trampled by Boeing,” says Kennedy.

In response to Barnett’s death, his lawyers Brian Knowles and Robert Turkewitz said, “He was in very good spirits and really looking forward to putting this phase of his life behind him and moving on. We didn’t see any indication he would take his own life. No one can believe it.” Although the coroner found no physical evidence that someone other than Barnett was responsible for his death, conspiracy theories spread online, further fanned by a friend of the whistleblower who claimed that Barnett told her, “If anything happens to me, it's not suicide.” Barnett left a note, a line of which read, “I hope Boeing pays.” As his lawyers put it, “while Boeing may not have pulled the trigger, the company is responsible for his death.”

Boeing addressed the claims raised in Freefall in a statement to Kennedy and Netflix: "The allegations in this film have been widely reported over the years. Some remain unfounded claims to this day while others are issues that Boeing thoroughly addressed or continues to improve upon. Under the leadership of our new CEO and with feedback from our employees, we introduced new values and behaviors that are strengthening our culture.”

The continued fight for change

While the whistleblowers drive Freefall’s investigative narrative, they are far from its only focus. After the two 737 Max crashes, Boeing negotiated a “deferred prosecution agreement” with the Justice Department, which meant that criminal fraud charges would be dropped if the company avoided more scandals and accidents for a probation of three years. For the loved ones of the crash victims, this was not good enough, and they pushed their fight for meaningful accountability from Boeing and assurances that aviation companies wouldn’t be able to shirk on safety ever again. “One of the things that comes through is just the remarkable humanity of the people who work there, and the remarkable lack of humanity by the corporation,” says Kennedy.

Naoise Connolly Ryan is the widow of Mike Ryan, a United Nations employee who died in the Ethiopian Airlines crash. In Freefall, she comes across as a clear-minded, courageous and dogged organizer, appearing with her fellow activists with placards and posters of her husband in the benches of senate chambers where Boeing leaders are being grilled. Just before Freefall’s release, a Chicago jury awarded her $29 million for a civil suit brought against Boeing. It sets a strong precedent for the other families, but it’s a small step against a stubborn giant—a company once regarded as symbolic of American growth and excellence that has turned its back on the public.

“You're seeing this company really be destroyed, and at the same time, the people running it have become some of the richest people in the world,” says Kennedy. “It does speak of a larger correction that needs to happen to make sure that corporations and governments are focused on the public interest and not destroying these institutions for the profit of a very small group of people at the expense of everybody else.” Boeing’s downfall is ultimately a historic betrayal.

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