Hello and welcome to episode 268 of Avtoc. I am Ian Patchnick here as always with

Jason Ebenowitz. Hello Ian how are you today?

I'm well Jason how are you sir?

I'm good thank you we've got a long list of interesting things this week. Some expected, some unexpected, some just things. Some just things. Yeah, it's a big week. We've finally reached the culmination of months,

years maybe of trying to get this across the line, The bill to reauthorize the FAA has passed, so we'll talk about that in just a minute.

We've got some good order news to report, some interesting operational changes, but we get to once again start with bad news for Boeing.

Yes, bad news that we probably knew was coming, but it may not have been coming but now we know

something's coming for Boeing and that would be in the form of the DOJ saying that

Boeing did indeed breach its deferred prosecution agreement after the two crashes of the 737 max years ago.

As we remember calling back a few episodes now that the deferred prosecution agreement expired mere days after the Alaska

Airlines 737 Max 9 door plug blowout and that kind of triggered some very not good things for Boeing possibly

Ian what did the DOJ have to say? So the DOJ sent a letter to the judge in the case that supervised the original deferred prosecution

agreement.

It also sent a letter to people that have been termed crime victims based on the charging documents in the case.

And both of those documents say that the Department of Justice has determined that Boeing breached

its obligations under the deferred prosecution agreement, and it lists the specific, you know, paragraphs and subsections of what they say Boeing had to live up to, but they say that they did that by quote, failing to design,

implement and enforce a compliance and ethics program to prevent and detect violation of the US fraud laws throughout its operations.

Hmm, and we don't know the details of exactly what the DOJ thinks triggers this. Was it the missing bolts in the door plug? Was it the non-compliance of how they were assembling 787 parts by jumping on them or whatever.

Was it probably not that one, but was it Boeing employees lying about doing inspections

required on the 787? I think we talked about that last week or the week before.

We don't know the details. We just though that the DOJ says Boeing has done something or

multiple things that violates its deferred prosecution agreement.

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