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Boeing Judge Sets June Criminal Trial Over 737 Max Crashes
Indonesian investigators inspect the wreckage of an engine from Lion Air Flight JT 610 recovered from the sea in Jakarta, Indonesia, in 2018.
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A federal judge in Texas ordered Boeing Co. to stand trial June 23 in a criminal case tied to two deadly crashes of its 737 Max aircraft, setting up a high-stakes public showdown in the planemaker’s long-running legal saga.
US District Judge Reed O’Connor announced the trial date in a Tuesday order without explanation. The move comes one day after the Wall Street Journal reported Boeing was seeking leniency from the US Justice Department, which has been in talks with the company on revisions to an earlier plea deal that was rejected by O’Connor in December.