(3 Sep 2025)
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Fort Worth, Texas – 3 September 2025
1. Various of families of Boeing crash victims outside of courthouse
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Nadia Milleron, mother of Boeing crash victim:
“My daughter died on a new airplane that was defective and that was in operation because they weren’t complying with regulations and because of fraud. And I don’t want any other parent and any other family member to lose their loved ones because of this kind of fraud and impunity of a huge corporation. Boeing is important for our defense, our national defense, and so we have to hold them to a high standard of behavior and a high standard of manufacturing and compliance with regulations which are all written in blood. So it’s tough love for a company that we want to survive and we want to do well, and it’s not doing well by cutting corners and killing people."
3. Families entering courthouse
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Nadia Milleron, mother of Boeing crash victim :
“We have to say to corporations, you have to follow the law. You can’t be above the law just because you have money. You can’t pay off family members, you can’t pay money to make this go away.”
++ENDS ON SOUNDBITE++
STORYLINE:
Families of some of the 346 people killed in crashes of Boeing 737 Max jetliners held photos of their dead loved ones Wednesday outside a federal court in Texas, where a judge is hearing arguments on the U.S. government’s motion to dismiss a felony conspiracy charge against the aerospace company in connection with the twin disasters.
U.S. District Chief Judge Reed O’Connor set aside time for relatives of the crash victims to speak during the hearing. Some traveled from countries in Europe and Africa to pursue what could be their final opportunity to demand that the company face criminal prosecution for the crashes off the coast of Indonesia and in Ethiopia.
“My daughter died on a new airplane that was defective and that was in operation because they weren’t complying with regulations and because of fraud,” said Nadia Milleron, a Massachusetts resident whose 24-year-old daughter, Samya Stumo, was among the 157 passengers and crew members killed in the Ethiopia crash. “I don’t want any other any other family member to lose their loved ones because of this kind of fraud.”
In charging Boeing with conspiracy to defraud the government, prosecutors alleged Boeing deceived Federal Aviation Administration regulators about a flight-control system that was later implicated in the fatal flights, which happened less than five months apart in 2018 and 2019.
The hearing in Fort Worth comes more than four years after the Justice Department announced it had charged Boeing and reached a $2.5 billion settlement with the aircraft maker. That deal would have protected Boeing from criminal prosecution if it strengthened its ethics and legal compliance programs. Prosecutors revived the charge last year after deciding the company had violated certain terms of the agreement.
Boeing decided to plead guilty as part of a new agreement, but O’Connor rejected the deal in December. O’Connor, who was appointed by President George W. Bush, cited concerns he had over how diversity policies both at the federal government and at Boeing could influence the selection of an independent monitor charged with overseeing the company’s promised reforms.
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