On Sunday night, Boeing had to make a big decision.

Plead guilty to conspiring to defraud the federal government, a felony,

or risk going to trial against the Justice Department.

The company took the plea.

They gambled and they said,

what's going to be worse for us?

That's Oriana Pollack, who covers aviation for Politico.

And sure, a felony plea is who covers aviation for political.

And sure, a felony plea is pretty big,

but they know I think that it could also

potentially get worse if they went to trial

because, again, it would just create a barrage of

more bad press and bad headlines and maybe they just wanted to stave that off a

little bit so a guilty plea kind of nips it in the bud. The conspiracy

charge against Boeing stems from two fatal crashes of 737 Max 8 planes in

2018 and 2019,

346 people were killed.

On Sunday, an Ethiopian Airlines flight crashed shortly after takeoff in the capital of Ethiopia.

All 157 people aboard were shortly after takeoff in the capital of Ethiopia.

All 157 people aboard were killed.

It happened less than six months after an incident on October 29th

when a Lyon Airflight crashed shortly after takeoff in the capital of Indonesia.

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