US judge rejects Boeing 737 MAX accord over diversity policies

A US judge rejected a criminal settlement with Boeing over the 737 MAX crashes on Thursday, slamming diversity policies at the aviation giant and the Justice Department that made him “skeptical” of a fair outcome.

In the ruling, US District Judge Reed O’Connor blocked Boeing’s guilty plea under a deferred prosecution agreement in the case which dates back to two fatal crashes in 2018 and 2019 that killed 346 people.