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

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 due to software failures the company initially ignored. “You lose a child, and it’s an amputation of who you are,” Michael Stumo told The Epoch Times. His daughter, Samya Rose Stumo, was 24 when she and 156 others died on Ethiopian Airlines flight 302 on March 10, 2019, after a Boeing 737 Max 8 stalled midair when its flight control software—the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS)—activated soon after takeoff, bringing the plane down....