As Judge Considers Boeing Plea Deal, Crash Victims’ Families Demand Public Trial

The lawyers for the crash victims’ families are pleading with the judge to throw out the guilty plea and force Boeing into a public trial.

Mount Baker in Washington is seen in the distance as a WestJet Airlines Boeing 737 Max aircraft arrives at Vancouver International Airport in Richmond, B.C., on Jan. 21, 2021. Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press

As a federal judge in Texas mulls accepting Boeing’s guilty plea in the Department of Justice (DOJ) investigation into the fatal 737 Max crashes, families continue to live with daily reminders of those they lost because of software failures that the company initially ignored.

“You lose a child, and it’s an amputation of who you are,” Michael Stumo told The Epoch Times.