Families of victims killed in 737 Max crashes are fighting with the US Department of Justice over the selection and role of the compliance monitor who will oversee quality and safety initiatives at Boeing now that the company has agreed to plead guilty to fraud.
The plane maker is poised to join the ranks of companies that have been subject to court-ordered oversight, including Volkswagen, Apple and Deutsche Bank.
But Javier de Luis, an aeronautics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology whose sister was killed in the second Max crash, said the justice department’s proposed process to choose a monitor is essentially Boeing “picking its own probation officer”.