Put yourself in the shoes of a senior official in the Biden-Harris administration. Say you&#8217;re running the DOJ. Right now you know that, in just a matter of months, you could be out of a job. In fact, that seems pretty likely at this point. If there&#8217;s any important cases you want to pursue, or policies you want to defend, now&#8217;s the time to do it. This is your opportunity to cement your legacy, at least until the next administration fires you and completely dismantles it.
Given that setup, what would you make a top priority? With so many things going wrong in this country, what are the battles you&#8217;d choose to fight, with the limited time you have left? We&#8217;re not quite in a &#8220;lame duck&#8221; period, technically speaking, but everyone in the administration is asking this question right now.
And as low as your expectations may be for the Biden-Harris administration, their answer to that question is pretty remarkable. In what could very well be their final days in power, senior leaders in the federal government are going to federal court to defend DEI policies. And I&#8217;m not talking about just any garden-variety DEI policies here. As we speak, the Justice Department is going to <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/24/business/boeing-deal-dei-justice-department/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">court</a> to demand that DEI is used in the selection process to appoint an independent monitor to oversee Boeing, the aircraft manufacturer. The job of this independent monitor is to make sure that Boeing stops making planes that fall apart in the sky, or fall out of the sky completely.
In other words, the Biden-Harris DOJ is fighting to ensure that the second-largest commercial jet manufacturer in the world is supervised by a DEI hire. What could possibly go wrong?
If you&#8217;ve been following Boeing lately, you know that a lot can go wrong. There&#8217;s a decent documentary on Netflix called &#8220;Downfall: The Case Against Boeing&#8221; that outlines a lot of the background. But here&#8217;s the gist. As you probably remember, there were two fatal crashes involving Boeing 737 MAX aircraft in 2018 and 2019. A total of 346 people were killed in just a few months.
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Investigation revealed that the crashes were linked to Boeing&#8217;s decision to accelerate production of the 737 MAX to compete with their rival, Airbus. The design of Boeing&#8217;s new 737 MAX was a lot like the older Boeing jets, with one key exception: the engines were larger and they were positioned further forward on the plane. While this helped with efficiency, it came with a side effect, which is that the plane had a tendency to pitch upwards during flight.
To counteract that tendency, Boeing designed a new software program that they installed on their new 737 MAX aircraft. The idea was that the software would automatically lower the nose to a level position, if the plane started creeping upwards. It was supposed to be a subtle fix that the pilots wouldn&#8217;t really notice. The problem is that the software was completely dependent on one sensor on the plane, called the &#8220;angle of attack&#8221; sensor. And if that sensor failed for whatever reason, or provided inaccurate data, the plane would inaccurately believe that it was climbing too quickly. And the software, in response, would make the plane plunge towards the Earth. And that&#8217;s exactly what happened, in both cases. Here&#8217;s coverage of one of the crashes:
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What&#8217;s incredible about this crash — the Ethiopian airlines one — is that it happened after the Lion Air crash several months earlier. And after the Lion Air crash, Boeing sent out advisories to a bunch of airlines, warning them about their software. They said that, if they encounter a similar issue, pilots should just turn off the electrical system of that part of the aircraft, to disable their software entirely.
The problem is that, when the Ethiopian pilots did that, they encountered a bunch of other unexpected issues that they weren&#8217;t really trained on. They were panicking, and during the chaos, they left the throttle on maximum, which made it impossible to control the plane without the help of the electrical system. And when they tried to regain some control, they turned the electrical system back on, at which point the plane promptly crashed itself.
Obviously, there are a lot of failures that occurred in this whole situation. The regulators at the FAA delegated a lot of their responsibilities to Boeing, which meant that Boeing was in charge of certifying the safety of its own software. Additionally, Boeing knowingly made false representations about its software during the certification process.
That&#8217;s not in dispute. Boeing admits this. This summer, Boeing agreed to plead guilty to &#8220;conspiring to defraud&#8221; the government concerning the 737 MAX&#8217;s software. Then Boeing and the DOJ filed a plea agreement in court so that a judge could review it. The plea agreement essentially makes Boeing — as a company — a convicted felon.
But to his credit, the judge, whose name is Reed O&#8217;Connor, isn&#8217;t signing off on the plea deal — at least not yet. This is a bit like the situation with Hunter Biden this summer. Just because both parties agree to a plea deal, that doesn&#8217;t mean the judge has to accept it. And in this case, there&#8217;s a very important reason why the judge won&#8217;t accept it.
From the <a href="https://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/legaldocs/egvbjydgbvq/10222024boeing.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">judge&#8217;s order</a> this month: &#8220;The Agreement mandates an independent compliance monitor to assess whether Boeing has adequately mitigated the risk of providing false or fraudulent information to the Federal Aviation Administration and other government regulators. &#8230; Like many of the Agreement’s other provisions, the victims strongly oppose the Agreement’s compliance monitor requirements. Among other reasons, the victims argue the Court should reject the Agreement because it allows the Government, not the Court, to select a monitor with input from Boeing and &#8216;in keeping with the Department’s commitment to diversity and inclusion.'&#8221;
In other words, both the judge and the victims&#8217; families have an issue with this provision. And you can see why. When both the regulator and the airline manufacturer mess up, causing the deaths of hundreds of people, then you&#8217;d think you&#8217;d want to bring in the most competent people you can find, in order to make sure that it never happens again. But that&#8217;s not what&#8217;s happening here.
When the judge asked the government&#8217;s attorney, Sean Tonolli, to explain what exactly this &#8220;diversity, equity and inclusion&#8221; policy would entail, Tonolli responded that he&#8217;s not an expert in the topic. But he eventually got around to saying &#8220;diversity&#8221; refers to &#8220;race, gender, background and any number of factors, including background and experience.&#8221; Tonolli added that &#8220;inclusion&#8221; is, &#8220;another way of maybe saying the same thing and not excluding people because of any characteristic that would be included in diversity.&#8221; Then he tapped out. He said he couldn&#8217;t provide any more information than that. But he did insist that the government wouldn&#8217;t pick someone who was unqualified.
That led the judge to ask, “Did the department used to exclude certain people on race, gender, and other things?” And in response to that question, Tonolli responded: “Not to my knowledge.”
That was an alarming answer, to say the least. Especially when you&#8217;re talking about making sure that more planes don&#8217;t fall out of the sky, the answer should be an unequivocal &#8220;No, we definitely wouldn&#8217;t exclude anyone based on race or gender.&#8221; It&#8217;s wrong to discriminate on the basis of race or gender in any context. But it&#8217;s completely insane to do it when you&#8217;re talking about regulating Boeing, which if you haven&#8217;t noticed, is having a lot of problems right now — both on this planet and in space.
So the judge asked Boeing for their input. But they just deferred to the government&#8217;s answer. Then the judge pulled up Boeing&#8217;s website, where he found that the company has a &#8220;set of aspirations&#8221; that it plans to achieve by next year. Those aspirations, which are based on DEI, include explicit quotas on the basis of race, including Boeing&#8217;s efforts to, “[i]ncrease the Black representation rate in the U.S. by 20%” and “[c]lose representation gaps for historically underrepresented groups.&#8221; The judge also found that Boeing pays its executives bonuses depending on how many of their DEI goals they&#8217;ve achieved.
At the moment, we don&#8217;t know exactly how this legal battle will play out. The judge has said he wants a full hearing on this, before he signs off on any plea agreement. He wants to make sure that the Biden-Harris administration is going to select someone who can do the job, before any more people die in Boeing airplanes. And based on the statements of Boeing and the Biden-Harris administration so far, the judge doesn&#8217;t have those assurances.
If you look at any of the corporate media coverage of this story, you&#8217;ll find a lot of snark directed at the judge. Reuters, for example, <a href="https://www.reuters.com/legal/how-us-judge-injected-culture-wars-into-boeing-737-max-plea-deal-2024-10-24/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ran this headline</a>: &#8220;How a US judge injected culture wars into Boeing 737 MAX plea deal.&#8221; They interviewed a lawyer who criticized the judge, saying he was acting &#8220;incredibly unusual.&#8221; CNN meanwhile accused the judge of engaging in a &#8220;politically tinged&#8221; courtroom battle.
This is the same tactic we see in the trans debate, and in so many other areas. Left-wing activists implement some new, insane policy. And when you push back against it in any way, or even ask questions about it, you&#8217;re accused of injecting a &#8220;culture war&#8221; in a way that&#8217;s somehow inappropriate. It&#8217;s apparently not injecting a&#8221;culture war&#8221; when Boeing and the federal government both decide to start hiring people on the basis of their skin color. But it&#8217;s definitely a &#8220;culture war&#8221; when a judge asks if we&#8217;re hiring the most qualified people to make sure that more planes don&#8217;t crash themselves into the ocean.
The reason these outlets are lashing out like this is that they recognize this judge&#8217;s ruling is significant. They realize they&#8217;re indeed losing the culture war that they started. This is the first time, that I&#8217;m aware of, that a federal judge has explicitly called out DEI in the context of an ongoing case. He&#8217;s demanded to know what exactly it entails. And in response, the government and Boeing — which both practice DEI — couldn&#8217;t even answer the question. It&#8217;s yet another sign that the tide is turning sharply against the whole concept of diversity, equity and inclusion, particularly when lives are at stake.
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When I started working on my film &#8220;Am I Racist&#8221; a few years ago, developments like this were pretty difficult to imagine. But throughout the process, we all knew that taking down DEI meant exposing exactly what it is, in practice. Once reasonable people can see exactly what diversity, equity, and inclusion entails, then they turn against it. They recognize that it&#8217;s immoral and unethical, not to mention dangerous in some cases. And they also recognize that the high priests of the DEI cult actually have no idea what they&#8217;re talking about. Like Boeing&#8217;s lawyers, or the various &#8220;experts&#8221; and activists I spoke to in the film, these people can&#8217;t even define the terms that they&#8217;re constantly repeating.
That&#8217;s the main reason I&#8217;m excited about the streaming release of &#8220;Am I Racist.&#8221; As you may have heard, my new film is coming to DailyWire+ on Monday. We&#8217;ll be able to show the film to people who, for one reason or another, weren&#8217;t able to see it in theaters. We&#8217;ll be exposing the DEI grift to an audience of millions more people. And when it comes to DEI, exposure is fatal. Mockery is intolerable, too. And we do a lot of both in this film.
Thanks to everyone who&#8217;s supported us in theaters, we produced the top documentary of the decade. We showed how some of the biggest names in the industry are complete and total frauds. And we had a lot of fun doing it. I hope you&#8217;ll support us.
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Two astronauts have been stuck on the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/nasa" target="_blank" rel="noopener">International Space Station</a> (ISS) since early June after their Boeing Starliner — the company&#8217;s first manned spacecraft — sprang leaks and lost multiple thrusters while approaching the space station.
Veteran astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams were supposed to be in space for a total of eight days when they left Earth on June 5, but the Boeing Starliner&#8217;s mechanical issues have prolonged their stay, and NASA is still unsure of when the Americans will come back home. NASA has even suggested that Wilmore and Williams might have to stay at the space station until February, turning their eight-day mission into an eight-month stay.
NASA has been considering greenlighting a return flight in the Boeing Starliner, and Boeing remains confident that its spacecraft could complete the trek back down to Earth, <a href="https://www.livescience.com/space/space-exploration/nasa-delays-boeing-starliner-return-flight-again-amid-major-discussion-about-astronaut-safety" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to Live Science. Boeing said it would bring its ship back empty if NASA decides to leave the astronauts at the International Space Station instead of risking a return trip on the plagued Starliner.
&#8220;It&#8217;s a fairly major discussion to decide whether or not we&#8217;re going to have crew on board for Starliner&#8217;s return,&#8221; Ken Bowersox, associate administrator for NASA&#8217;s Space Operations Mission Directorate, said at a news conference on Wednesday. &#8220;We&#8217;re expecting that the data analysis will be ready for a program board by the middle to end of next week, and will be ready for a flight readiness review around the end of next week.&#8221;
The Boeing Starliner had issues even before it launched with Wilmore and Williams on board on June 5 when it sprang a leak in the propulsion-related plumbing. Five of Starliner&#8217;s thrusters also failed as it approached the space station. After conducting tests from the ground and in space, all but one of the spacecraft&#8217;s 28 thrusters appear to be working, the Associated Press <a href="https://www.wesh.com/article/astronauts-stuck-nasa-boeing-iss/61857685" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. The thrusters are vital to keep the capsule in the right position during its deorbit burn.
NASA is considering bringing Wilmore and Williams home on a SpaceX Dragon capsule, a spacecraft made by Elon Musk&#8217;s space exploration and rocket company. The Dragon capsule would usually go up to the space station with a four-man crew, but if seats are needed for Wilmore and Williams, it will carry two astronauts of Crew-9 to the ISS. Under that plan, Wilmore and Williams would have to remain at the ISS until February 2025 as that is when Crew-9 is scheduled to return on the SpaceX Dragon capsule.
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&#8220;I do want to keep this in perspective, if Butch and Suni do not come home on Starliner, they will have about 8 months in orbit,&#8221; Russ DeLoach, NASA&#8217;s chief of safety and mission assurance, said at the Wednesday news conference.
NASA assured that its astronauts are still healthy and safe aboard the ISS and have enough food and water to stay there for the long haul. Astronauts have stayed at the ISS for months at a time. Recently, Frank Rubio and his Russian crewmembers were at the ISS for over a year after their spacecraft was damaged by space junk after it had docked, the Associated Press <a href="https://www.wesh.com/article/astronauts-stuck-nasa-boeing-iss/61857685" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. Russia sent an empty capsule to bring them back home in September 2023.
The Boing Starliner fiasco adds another item to the list of recent issues plaguing the aerospace company. Earlier this year, a door plug flew off an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 Max shortly after it had taken off. More than seven months after the incident, Boeing still doesn&#8217;t know who was responsible for replacing the door plug before it flew off the Alaska Airlines plane, according to <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/07/business/boeing-ntsb-hearing-alaska-airlines-door-plug/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CNN</a>. In a separate case, the aerospace company <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/boeing-to-take-plea-deal-with-justice-dept-over-deadly-plane-crashes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pled guilty</a> last month to conspiracy to defraud the United States after it was charged over two crashes involving the company’s planes in which hundreds of people died.

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Boeing has agreed to plead guilty to conspiracy to defraud the United States after it was charged over two crashes involving the company’s planes in which hundreds of people died, according to the Justice Department. 
In a Sunday <a href="https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24793880/boeing.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">court filing</a>, the Justice Department said that Boeing had agreed to pay a $487.2 million fine and invest $455 million in compliance and safety programs. The charges come after the government <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/doj-targets-boeing-says-it-breached-2021-deferred-prosecution-agreement" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Boeing violated a safety and inspection agreement with the DOJ. A judge has yet to approve the plea deal. 
The agreement comes after two of Boeing&#8217;s 737 MAX 8s <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/boeing-agrees-principle-deal-doj-plead-guilty-misleading/story?id=111736181" target="_blank" rel="noopener">were involved</a> in two fatal crashes. Nearly 200 people were killed in a crash near Indonesia in the Java Sea in 2018, and 157 individuals died in a crash in Ethiopia the following year. 
“The parties have agreed in principle to the material terms of a plea agreement that would, among other things, hold Boeing accountable for its material misstatements to the Federal Aviation Administration, require Boeing to pay the statutory maximum fine, require Boeing to invest at least $455 million in its compliance and safety programs, impose an independent compliance monitor, and allow the Court to determine the restitution amount for the families in its discretion, consistent with applicable law,” the DOJ said in a filing to U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas. 
The proposed deal has already faced criticism from family members of the crash victims.
“This sweetheart deal fails to recognize that because of Boeing’s conspiracy, 346 people died,” lawyer Paul Cassell <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/08/business/boeing-justice-department-plea-deal.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. “Through crafty lawyering between Boeing and DOJ, the deadly consequences of Boeing’s crime are being hidden.”
In a statement, Boeing said it had reached a preliminary agreement with the government.  
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In the filing, the government said it had met with victims’ families before reaching the plea deal. 
“Before this plea agreement was reached, the Government afforded the families numerous opportunities to communicate and express their views, personally and through counsel, and the families meaningfully and substantially participated in conferral meetings,” lawyers for the Justice Department said. “Indeed, the Government formulated the plea offer based in part on the feedback that it received during conferral sessions and communications with the families and Boeing’s airline customers that purchased the 737 MAX (&#8216;airline customers&#8217;) during the past few months.”
Boeing has come under increasing scrutiny in recent months as Congress has held hearings on the quality of Boeing&#8217;s airplanes amid a series of high-profile accidents. 
Two Boeing whistleblowers who accused the company of wrongdoing died this year, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/boeing-whistleblower-who-warned-of-aircraft-safety-problems-found-dead" target="_blank" rel="noopener">including</a> one just after he testified against the company.

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Sen. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/josh-hawley" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Josh Hawley</a> (R-MO) grilled <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/boeing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Boeing</a> CEO Dave Calhoun about his multi-million dollar salary at the embattled aerospace company on Tuesday.
&#8220;What is it that you get paid currently?&#8221; Hawley asked Calhoun during a <a href="https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/subcommittees/investigations/hearings/boeings-broken-safety-culture-ceo-dave-calhoun-testifies/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hearing</a> of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations — which has been looking into <a href="https://www.blumenthal.senate.gov/newsroom/press/release/the-senate-permanent-subcommittee-on-investigations-releases-evidence-from-new-boeing-whistleblowers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Boeing whistleblower complaints</a>.
&#8220;Senator, that&#8217;s well disclosed in our proxy documents in each of the years that I&#8217;ve been employed,&#8221; Calhoun said.
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Hawley: &quot;What is it that you get paid, currently?&quot;
Calhoun: &quot;It&#39;s well disclosed&#8230;it&#39;s a big number.&quot;
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&#8220;Yeah, but what is it?&#8221; Hawley shot back.
&#8220;It&#8217;s a big number, sir,&#8221; Calhoun said.
&#8220;Well, let me help you out,&#8221; Hawley responded. &#8220;It&#8217;s $32.8 million this year. Does that sound right?&#8221;
After Calhoun responded in the affirmative, Hawley continued, &#8220;That&#8217;s a 45% increase over last year.&#8221;
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Once again, Hawley asked if the number he recited sounded correct, to which Calhoun said that it did.
&#8220;What is it you get paid to do exactly?&#8221; Hawley pressed.
&#8220;I get paid to run the Boeing company,&#8221; Calhoun answered.
&#8220;Yeah,&#8221; Hawley said. &#8220;So just help me understand that. I mean, do you get paid for transparency? If that part of — is that one of the metrics for your income?&#8221;
Calhoun explained, &#8220;I think the board counts on me for transparency.&#8221;
The comment prompted a stern retort in which Hawley listed a number of investigations that Boeing has faced.
&#8220;This is all in your tenure. This doesn&#8217;t sound like a lot of transparency to me,&#8221; Hawley said.
As Boeing has been inundated with controversies, including a <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/boeing-paid-alaska-160m-compensation-door-plug-incident/story?id=108859251" target="_blank" rel="noopener">door plug incident</a> and plane crashes, Hawley also pressed Calhoun on safety and quality control.
The senator accused Calhoun of trying to &#8220;squeeze&#8221; profit out of the company while &#8220;cutting corners&#8221; and endangering lives.
“Senator, I don’t recognize any of the Boeing you described,&#8221; Calhoun insisted.
Hawley asked Calhoun why he has not resigned, to which the executive declared he is &#8220;sticking this through&#8221; and is &#8220;proud&#8221; of Boeing&#8217;s work — including its safety record.
“Wow. There&#8217;s some news for you,&#8221; Hawley quipped.
&#8220;I think the American public, when they fear to get on their airplanes, they understand your safety record,&#8221; he added.
&#8220;And frankly, sir, I think it’s a travesty that you’re still in your job,&#8221; Hawley said.
Also during the hearing, Calhoun made headlines for <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/boeing-whistleblower-steps-forward-ahead-ceos-testimony-washington/story?id=111206197" target="_blank" rel="noopener">apologizing</a> to plane crash victims and <a href="https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2024-06-18/boeing-ceo-apologizes-acknowledges-far-from-perfect-culture-amid-withering-rebuke-in-senate" target="_blank" rel="noopener">conceding</a> a &#8220;far from perfect&#8221; culture at Boeing.

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Hawley Confronts Boeing CEO On $32.8 Million Salary, Says ‘It’s A Travesty That You’re Still In Your Job’

Hawley Confronts Boeing CEO On $32.8 Million Salary, Says 'It’s A Travesty That You’re Still In Your Job'

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The Department of Justice has alerted Boeing that the airline manufacturer breached terms of its 2021 deferred prosecution agreement, which saw Boeing protected from criminal prosecution after two 737 Max accidents in 2018 and 2019 that killed 346 people. Those accidents occurred on an October 2018 Lion Air 737 Max flight and a March 2019 Ethiopian Airlines 737 Max flight.
The 2021 agreement <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usdoj-media/criminal/media/1212261/dl?inline" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stated,</a> “The Company agrees that, effective as of the date it signs this Agreement, in any prosecution that is deferred by this Agreement, it will not dispute the Statement of Facts set forth in this Agreement.” It added:
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This Agreement is effective for a period beginning on the date on which the Information is filed and ending three years from that date (the “Term”). The Company agrees, however, that, in the event the Fraud Section determines, in its sole discretion, that the Company has knowingly violated any provision of this Agreement or has failed to completely perform or fulfill each of its obligations under this Agreement, an extension or extensions of the Term may be imposed by the Fraud Section, in its sole discretion, for up to a total additional time period of one year.
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Boeing paid $2.5 billion in penalties after the 2021 agreement with a promise it would improve safety and compliance protocols, but families victimized by the two crashes felt that justice had not been done. After recent events, they met with the Biden administration last month to urge ending the 2021 agreement.
Those events included an Alaska Airlines flight losing a door plug in January. In late February, the Federal Aviation Administration issued a <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/26/business/aviation-safety-panel-finds-boeing-culture-included-safety-gaps-fear-of-retaliation/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> criticizing Boeing that stated it did not find “objective evidence of a foundational commitment to safety that matched Boeing’s descriptions of that objective.” The report also declared that some employees at Boeing were reticent to speak of safety concerns because they feared retaliation.
“For failing to fulfill completely the terms of and obligations under the [deferred prosecution agreement], Boeing is subject to prosecution by the United States for any federal criminal violation of which the United States has knowledge,” the Justice Department informed US District Judge Reed O’Connor in Fort Worth, Texas, who supervised the 2021 agreement. The Justice Department added that “the government has determined that Boeing breached its obligations by failing to design, implement, and enforce a compliance and ethics program to prevent and detect violations of the U.S. fraud laws throughout its operations,” CNN <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/14/business/boeing-justice-department-criminal-prosecution/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
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Boeing has until June 13 to respond to the Justice Department action.
“We believe that we have honored the terms of that agreement, and look forward to the opportunity to respond to the Department on this issue,” Boeing said in a statement, according to CNN.

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A 45-year-old man who raised concerns about a Boeing supplier ignoring production defects died on Tuesday while battling a fast-spreading infection, his family said.
Joshua Dean of Wichita, Kansas, was a healthy middle-aged man before going to the hospital two weeks ago because he was having difficulty breathing, according to his family, The Seattle Times <a href="https://www.seattletimes.com/business/whistleblower-josh-dean-of-boeing-supplier-spirit-aerosystems-has-died/">reported</a>. At the hospital, Dean was intubated but then developed pneumonia and MRSA, an infection that makes it hard for a person to breathe.
Dean&#8217;s aunt, Carol Parsons, said her nephew&#8217;s condition became so severe before his death that he was airlifted to a hospital in Oklahoma City and placed on an ECMO machine, which takes over a patient&#8217;s heart and lung functions when they&#8217;re not working on their own.
Dean, who worked as a quality auditor at Boeing supplier Spirit AeroSystems, was reportedly fired by Spirit in April 2023. He then filed a complaint with the Department of Labor, alleging Spirit had retaliated against him for raising concerns about aviation safety, according to the Times. Dean said that in 2022, he sounded the alarm on an alleged manufacturing defect where mechanics were improperly drilling holes in the MAX&#8217;s aft pressure bulkhead, but management allegedly did nothing to address his concern.
The former quality auditor had also given a deposition in a Spirit shareholder lawsuit and filed a complaint with the Federal Aviation Administration. In his complaint, Dean alleged that there was “serious and gross misconduct by senior quality management of the 737 production line” at Spirit.
The Wichita man was represented by the same law firm that represented Boeing whistleblower John Barnett, who was found dead in March from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. Barnett had alleged that Boeing retaliated against him after he filed complaints related to quality lapses. The police investigation into Barnett&#8217;s death is still ongoing, the Times reported.
Boeing has faced scrutiny in recent months, including from federal authorities, who are investigating what caused a door plug on an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 Max 9 to come off mid-flight earlier this year. Boeing said it has “worked proactively and transparently” to support the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) investigation.
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, meanwhile, launched an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/texas-investigating-boeing-supplier-over-dei-policies-amid-aircraft-safety-concerns" target="_blank" rel="noopener">investigation</a> into the &#8220;organization, conduct, and management&#8221; of Boeing supplier Spirit AeroSystems along with looking into &#8220;documents related to its diversity, equity, and inclusion (&#8216;DEI&#8217;) commitments, and whether those commitments are unlawful or are compromising the company’s manufacturing processes.&#8221;

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Another mid-flight mishap involving a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/boeing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Boeing</a> plane forced a Los Angeles-bound flight to return to JFK International Airport in New York on Friday — this time because the Delta aircraft&#8217;s emergency slide fell off.
Delta Flight 520 departed JFK at around 7:30 a.m., but just an hour into the flight the plane&#8217;s emergency alarm sounded, and the crew discovered that they had lost the emergency slide, forcing the pilots to abandon the trip to L.A. and return to the Queens airport, the New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/04/26/us-news/emergency-slide-falls-off-delta-plane-forcing-la-bound-flight-to-return-to-jfk/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. The crew had also reported feeling a vibration at the time of the incident, according to the FAA.
Authorities were searching for the lost emergency slide as of Friday afternoon, according to the Post. Sources told the outlet that they believe the chute could be in Jamaica Bay, just west of JFK Airport. No injuries were reported from the incident, and the Boeing 767 again departed the airport at around 11:00 a.m.
Friday&#8217;s incident is yet another example of a Boeing plane being forced to land after losing part of its equipment mid-air. Earlier this month, a Southwest Boeing 737-800 was forced to make an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/southwest-flight-forced-to-make-emergency-landing-after-engine-cover-rips-off" target="_blank" rel="noopener">emergency landing</a> after “several passengers and flight attendants heard something loud hit the wing.&#8221; Video taken as the plane was landing showed that one of its engine covers had ripped off.
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In March, another Boeing 737-800 — this one flown by United Airlines — lost an external panel while it was in the air between San Francisco and Oregon. All of the flights with recent mishaps involving Boeing planes landed safely.
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Last month, National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Chair Jennifer Homendy <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/boeing-refusing-to-hand-over-records-on-alaska-airlines-plane-that-lost-chunk-of-its-wall-mid-air-gov-official-says" target="_blank" rel="noopener">testified</a> before Congress and said that Boeing was refusing to cooperate on a separate investigation looking into a 25-member team that worked on a door plug that came off the Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 Max 9 earlier this year. Boeing said that it has “worked proactively and transparently” to support the NTSB investigation.

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A Southwest Airlines flight headed from Denver, CO, to Houston, TX, had to make an emergency landing on Sunday after the cover ripped off one of the plane&#8217;s engines, striking the wing flap.
Pilots on the Boeing 737-800 informed air traffic control at the Denver International Airport that &#8220;several passengers and flight attendants heard something loud hit the wing,&#8221; after which the plane was cleared to make a safe emergency landing.
Video of the moment the engine cover ripped away made the rounds on X on Sunday.
ABC News transportation reporter Sam Sweeney shared one clip, commenting, &#8220;Scary moments for passengers on a Southwest flight from Denver to Houston when the engine cover ripped off during flight, forcing the plane to return to Denver Sunday morning.&#8221;
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In another clip, shared by Mike Sington, a pilot could be heard talking to air traffic control about the loose engine cowling, and passengers could be heard saying, &#8220;There it goes,&#8221; and, &#8220;There goes the rest of it,&#8221; as the cover broke loose and flew out of sight.
Southwest Airlines addressed the incident in a statement to <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/07/business/southwest-boeing-737-800-engine/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CNN</a>, saying, &#8220;We apologize for the inconvenience of their delay but place our highest priority on ultimate Safety for our Customers and Employees.&#8221;
The passengers on the affected flight were transported to Houston on a different plane, and were delayed by several hours.
According to the Federal Aviation Administration, an investigation into the incident is pending. No injuries were reported.
Sunday&#8217;s mishap is just the latest in a string of issues plaguing Boeing, including one incident involving an external panel <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/united-airlines-boeing-737-loses-external-panel-mid-air" target="_blank" rel="noopener">falling off</a> as a United Airlines flight was in midair en route from San Francisco to Oregon. The flight crew in that case was not aware the panel had torn free until after they landed.

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Texas Attorney General <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ken-paxton" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ken Paxton</a> opened up an investigation into a Boeing supplier&#8217;s DEI policies amid growing concern over the aircraft company’s safety and quality standards. 
Paxton <a href="https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/news/releases/attorney-general-ken-paxton-opens-investigation-parts-supplier-boeing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> on Thursday that his office would be investigating Spirit AeroSystems Holdings, the company <a href="https://www.adn.com/nation-world/2024/02/21/with-boeing-in-hot-seat-over-alaska-airlines-fuselage-blowout-claims-against-supplier-spirit-aerosystems-take-shape/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">responsible</a> for building much of Boeing’s 737 MAX 9 aircraft. Boeing’s 737 Max has come under intense scrutiny after a door plug on an Alaska Airlines 737 MAX flew off mid-flight in January, prompting federal investigations. 
“The potential risks associated with certain airplane models are deeply concerning and potentially life-threatening to Texans,” Paxton said in a statement. “I will hold any company responsible if they fail to maintain the standards required by the law and will do everything in my power to ensure manufacturers take passenger safety seriously.”
Paxton’s office said Texas was investigating Spirit because “apparent manufacturing defects have led to numerous concerning or dangerous incidents, some of which occurred in-air.”  
As part of the investigation, Paxton has requested that Spirit turn over documents pertaining to its DEI policies as part of a probe into whether its DEI initiatives are lawful and potentially compromising manufacturing standards. 
In a <a href="https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/sites/default/files/images/press/Spirit%20Aero%20Request%20to%20Examine%20Letter.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to the supplier, Paxton asks for copies of the minutes to Spirit’s Global Diversity and Inclusion Council meetings as well as employee demographics prior to the enactment of its DEI policies. 
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On its <a href="https://www.spiritaero.com/company/diversity-equity-inclusion/overview/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">website</a>, Spirit highlights its commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion policies. “Cultivating a culture of diversity, equity and inclusion directly aligns with our <a href="https://www.spiritaero.com/company/overview/spirit-values/">values</a> and is a key enabler to achieving our overall business strategy to enhance performance,” Spirit says. 
Paxton also asked for records of manufacturing defects in relevant products. All the documents must be produced by April 17. 
The investigation comes just days after Boeing <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/top-boeing-leadership-to-leave-company-after-alaska-airlines-flight-loses-door-plug-midflight" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> that top leadership, including CEO David Calhoun, would be leaving the company. Leadership leaving the company include board chair Larry Kellner resigning from his position in May and Boeing Commercial Airplanes CEO Stan Deal retiring immediately. Boeing Chief Operation Officer Stephanie Pope will take over from Deal, while Steve Mollenkopf will become the company’s new board chair.

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Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun will leave the company by the end of the year as it changes leadership amid quality and safety concerns with <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/boeing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Boeing</a> aircraft. 
Other top leaders are also leaving the company, with board chair Larry Kellner resigning from his position in May and Boeing Commercial Airplanes CEO Stan Deal retiring immediately. Boeing Chief Operation Officer Stephanie Pope will take over from Deal, while Steve Mollenkopf will become the company’s new board chair. 
The announcement comes after the company faced scrutiny after a Boeing plane&#8217;s door plug blew off midflight during an Alaska Airlines flight carrying more than 170 passengers in January, forcing the plane to make an emergency landing. 
“As you all know, the Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 accident was a watershed moment for Boeing,” Calhoun <a href="https://boeing.mediaroom.com/2024-03-25-CEO-Message-to-Employees" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a letter to staff. “We must continue to respond to this accident with humility and complete transparency. We also must inculcate a total commitment to safety and quality at every level of our company.&#8221;
“The eyes of the world are on us, and I know we will come through this moment a better company, building on all the learnings we accumulated as we worked together to rebuild Boeing over the last number of years,” he added. “We have been working together for the last five years to address some of the most significant challenges our company and industry have ever faced in our 108-year history. I am confident that the way we have confronted these challenges, and how we are responding to this specific moment, is establishing standards for future generations of employees and will be woven into the fabric of how we operate for decades to come.”
The Alaska Airlines incident prompted a series of federal and congressional investigations into Boeing&#8217;s safety and manufacturing practices. 
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Earlier this month, National Transportation Safety Board Chair Jennifer Homendy <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/boeing-refusing-to-hand-over-records-on-alaska-airlines-plane-that-lost-chunk-of-its-wall-mid-air-gov-official-says" target="_blank" rel="noopener">testified</a> before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation that Boeing refused to tell investigators the names of people on a 25-member team that worked on a door plug that came off the Alaska Airlines plane.
“Boeing has not provided us with the documents and information that we have requested numerous times over the past few months, specifically with respect to opening, closing, and removal of the door,” Homendy told lawmakers. “Without that information, that raises concerns about quality assurance, quality management, [and] safety management systems.&#8221;
Other Boeing planes have experienced high-profile malfunctions this year, with a United Airlines Boeing 737 <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/united-airlines-boeing-737-loses-external-panel-mid-air" target="_blank" rel="noopener">losing</a> an external panel midflight this month and a Boeing 737-800 in Japan being <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/boeing-737-forced-to-turn-back-mid-flight-after-cockpit-window-cracks" target="_blank" rel="noopener">forced</a> to turn back in January because of a crack in the cockpit window. The incidents come as the Federal Aviation Authority<a href="https://apnews.com/article/boeing-safety-quality-faa-audit-fc3a23505363800e1c6d4debd98c4d74" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> found</a> that a Boeing plant in Renton, Washington, failed 33 of 88 production standards.

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A United Airlines <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/boeing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Boeing</a> 737 lost an external panel while it was in the air between San Francisco and Oregon on Friday with the airline crew only discovering the part was missing after the plane landed.
The Boeing 737-800 — which departed around 10:40 a.m. as United Airlines flight 433 carrying 139 passengers and six crew members — landed safely over an hour later at Rogue Valley International-Medford Airport, the New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/03/15/us-news/boeing-737-loses-external-panel-mid-flight/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. Airport Director Amber Judd told the outlet that after one of the plane&#8217;s external panels was found to be missing, the airport&#8217;s operations were temporarily halted as it conducted a safety check on the runway.
“After finding no debris on the airfield, normal operations at MFR resumed a few minutes later,” Judd said.
While in flight, there was no indication that the plane had any problem or emergency, the airline said. The plane, which is 25 years old, will undergo a &#8220;thorough examination,” according to United, which added that it will “perform all the needed repairs before it returns to service&#8221; and &#8220;conduct an investigation to better understand how this damage occurred.”
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The Federal Aviation Administration also said it will investigate the incident.
The latest mid-air incident comes amid a string of mishaps involving Boeing aircraft. Last week, a tire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-tire-falls-off-united-boeing-flight-during-takeoff-damages-multiple-cars" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fell off</a> a United Airlines Boeing 777-200 as it was taking off. The tire damaged multiple cars in a parking lot, but no one was injured.
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Days earlier, a United flight from Houston to Fort Myers, Florida, was forced to turn around after one of its engines burst into flames.
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In January, a door plug fell off of an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 Max minutes after it had taken off from Portland, forcing the plane to make an emergency landing. NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/boeing-refusing-to-hand-over-records-on-alaska-airlines-plane-that-lost-chunk-of-its-wall-mid-air-gov-official-says" target="_blank" rel="noopener">testified</a> before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation last week, saying that Boeing was refusing to tell investigators the names of people on a 25-member team that worked on a door plug that came off the Alaska Airlines plane.
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“Boeing has not provided us with the documents and information that we have requested numerous times over the past few months, specifically with respect to opening, closing, and removal of the door,” the NTSB chair said.
“It’s absurd that two months later we don’t have that,” she added. “Without that information, that raises concerns about quality assurance, quality management, [and] safety management systems.”
Boeing <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/boeing-documents-ntsb-alaska-door-plug-probe/story?id=107846602" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> ABC News that it has “worked proactively and transparently” to support the NTSB investigation.
“Early in the investigation, we provided the NTSB with names of Boeing employees, including door specialists, who we believed would have relevant information,” Boeing said. “We have now provided the full list of individuals on the 737 door team, in response to a recent request. With respect to documentation, if the door plug removal was undocumented there would be no documentation to share.”

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A former <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/boeing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Boeing</a> employee who raised safety concerns related to the company&#8217;s aircraft production was found dead this week.
Former Boeing quality manager John Barnett, who The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/12/business/john-barnett-boeing-whistleblower-dead.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">described</a> as a &#8220;prominent&#8221; whistleblower, was in Charleston, South Carolina, this week for a deposition for a lawsuit that he filed against Boeing. The lawsuit alleges that the company retaliated against Barnett for raising his safety concerns with the U.S. Labor Department in 2017 under the AIR21 Whistleblower Protection Program.
The Charleston Police Department was dispatched on Saturday morning to conduct a welfare check at a Holiday Inn hotel and discovered Barnett, 62, sitting inside a vehicle with a &#8220;gunshot wound to the head,&#8221; police said.
Police said that it appeared as though the fatal gunshot wound was &#8220;self-inflicted,&#8221; but added that the detectives and the coroner were still investigating to make an official determination about his cause of death.
&#8220;We understand the global attention this case has garnered, and it is our priority to ensure that the investigation is not influenced by speculation but is led by facts and evidence,&#8221; the department added. &#8220;Given the sensitive nature of the investigation, we are unable to participate in media interviews at this time. This stance is not unique to this case but is a standard procedure we adhere to in order to preserve the integrity of active investigations. Public disclosure will follow the investigation&#8217;s conclusion.&#8221;
Boeing responded to his death by saying in a statement, “We are saddened by Mr. Barnett’s passing, and our thoughts are with his family and friends.”
Barnett had warned that at Boeing’s South Carolina plant, clusters of metal shavings had been left inside the plane hanging over wiring that commands the plane&#8217;s flight controls, The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/20/business/boeing-dreamliner-production-problems.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare&amp;sgrp=c-cb" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> in 2019. He warned that if the metal shavings penetrated the wires, the results could be catastrophic.
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&#8220;As a quality manager at Boeing, you&#8217;re the last line of defense before a defect makes it out to the flying public,&#8221; Barnett told the newspaper. &#8220;And I haven&#8217;t seen a plane out of Charleston yet that I&#8217;d put my name on saying it&#8217;s safe and airworthy.&#8221;
He also <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/business-50293927" target="_blank" rel="noopener">discovered</a> that there were allegedly problems with the plane&#8217;s oxygen systems, which meant that some breathing devices may not work during an emergency.

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