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Public Record Case File · Updated Mar 31, 2026

Boeing 737 MAX Safety Oversight

Accountability file

A public-record case file for U.S. safety-oversight and accountability records concerning the Boeing 737 MAX (2019-2026): the federal criminal fraud matter, NTSB accident investigations, FAA regulatory action, DOT Inspector General audits, and congressional oversight. In the criminal matter (United States v. The Boeing Company, N.D. Tex. No. 4:21-cr-00005-O), the Department of Justice charged Boeing with one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States and entered a 2021 deferred prosecution agreement; DOJ later determined Boeing breached that agreement (2024), a proposed guilty-plea agreement was filed and then rejected by the court (December 5, 2024), and the case was ultimately resolved by a non-prosecution agreement (May 29, 2025) and dismissed (November 6, 2025). Boeing was not convicted in this matter, and the crash-victim families' mandamus appeal was denied by the Fifth Circuit (March 31, 2026, with a rehearing petition pending); the file keeps official court, safety-investigation, audit, and legislative records separate and never treats a charge, agreement, or dismissal as a conviction.

Public RecordOpen File9D912C89
Updated
Mar 31, 2026
Source Anchors
17 verified
Timeline
19 events
Roles
12 public-record
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Connection map

How the public record connects

Graph JSON

This shows the case file's most significant public-record connections only — see the Role Web and Timeline tabs for the full set. A line means a record connects two points; it is not a finding about conduct.

Publishing limits

These are the standards every anchor on this file must clear.

Minimum source tier
  • official record
  • court docket
  • oversight report
  • audit report
  • legislative record
Living people
For named individuals (pilots, officials, executives, the presiding judge), publish only source-backed public roles and exact record relationships; do not infer motive or blame, and never describe the corporate defendant's dismissed case as a conviction.
Victim protection
Treat crash and incident casualties and their families with dignity: publish no graphic detail, and no personal or next-of-kin identifying information beyond names already entered in the public court record as CVRA participants.
Social leads
Social posts, secondary coverage, and reported figures can start a lead, but promotion requires an official court, safety-investigation, audit, or legislative record; quarantined figures such as the rejected plea's dollar terms and any production-cap number stay in the research queue until sourced.

No guilt by proximity

An agency, company, official, or record appearing in the same 737 MAX timeline is context only and does not prove wrongdoing, causation, or a conviction; charges, agreements, audits, and accident findings each prove only what their own record states.

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For researchers & contributorsSource desk, research joins & machine-readable exportsEverything Hugin uses to grow and audit this file — connection detail, review posture, scout queue, and every export.
Connection map

How the public record is joined

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timeline backed19
source links31
role links29
open queues7
Source groups
7 sourcesofficial record7 linked recordsDOJ Criminal Division case record - United States v. The Boeing Company / DOJ press release - Boeing Charged with 737 Max Fraud Conspiracy and Agrees to Pay over $2.5 Billion / NTSB investigation page - DCA24MA063 (Alaska Airlines flight 1282)
3 sourcesaudit report3 linked recordsDOT OIG Report AV2021020 - Weaknesses in FAA's Certification and Delegation Processes Hindered Its Oversight of the 737 MAX 8 / DOT OIG Report AV2023025 - FAA Has Completed 737 MAX Return to Service Efforts, but Opportunities Exist To Improve the Agency's Risk Assessments and Certification Processes / DOT OIG Report AV2025002 - FAA's Oversight Processes for Identifying and Resolving Boeing Production Issues Are Not Effective
Timeline joins
Oct 29, 2018 / officialLion Air flight JT610 crashes2 linked recordsThe accident is stated as a factual event, as recorded in the FAA's findings. This file addresses the procedural record and does not publish graphic or casualty detail, and an accident is not by itself a finding of fault against any party.
Mar 10, 2019 / officialEthiopian Airlines flight ET302 crashes2 linked recordsThe accident is stated as a factual event, as recorded in the FAA's findings. Investigative causation was determined by the national authorities leading each inquiry and should not be inferred from this row.
Role joins
charged defendantThe Boeing Company4 linked recordsCorporate defendant (a legal person, not an individual). Boeing was charged with one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States and entered a 2021 deferred prosecution agreement; it was NOT convicted in this matter. After DOJ found a 2024 agreement breach, a proposed guilty-plea agreement was rejected by the court on December 5, 2024, and the case was resolved by a May 29, 2025 non-prosecution agreement and dismissed on November 6, 2025. Do not describe the outcome as a conviction or imply admitted guilt beyond the deferred prosecution agreement's statement of facts.
active investigation authorityU.S. Department of Justice, Criminal Division (Fraud Section)2 linked recordsCharging and dismissal decisions are exercises of prosecutorial discretion and do not by themselves establish or negate guilt.

Connections are navigation aids. They show where a record, event, or role is sourced; they do not convert association, correspondence, testimony requests, or document appearance into misconduct findings.

verified anchors17
timeline events19
research queues7
No hand-tuned source desk on this case yet, so no lead or probe queue is counted for it.
scout targets16
first-pass scout14
credential queue2
connectors16
keyless APIs6
free-key targets2
public search8
official pages0
POST templates0
CourtListener Search API / keyless apiGDELT DOC API / keyless apiFederal Register API / keyless apiGovInfo public document search / public searchRegulations.gov public search / public searcheCFR public search / public searchDOJ News API / keyless apiFOIA.gov government website search / public searchFBI Vault search / public searchNational Archives Catalog API / free key requiredData.gov CKAN catalog API / free key requiredCongress.gov public search / public search

Default public-record source desk for cases without a hand-tuned scout profile.

Source lanespublic-record-discovery
Sharing stateautomatic sharing disabled
Next actionAdd source receipts to the review queue before promoting case claims or social copy.
keyless apiCourtListener Search APIpublic-record source deltasLegal search across opinions, dockets, RECAP data, judges, and arguments.
keyless apiGDELT DOC APIpublic-record source deltasCoverage-index discovery for fresh public reporting rows.
keyless apiFederal Register APIpublic-record source deltasOfficial rule, notice, and agency-document discovery.
public searchGovInfo public document searchpublic-record source deltasFree public search across official publications from all three branches of the U.S. federal government.
public-record source deltas

Source leads and automated probes are review inventory. They become verified anchors only after Hugin can attach the public record, legal posture, and no-allegation guardrails.

Join board

Public-record joins are wired into exports

These are not loose TODOs anymore. Each lane below is computed from the case file's source tiers, then joined to matching sources, timeline events, role nodes, and release-roadmap requests.

wired lanes0
review lanes7
source joins42
release joins0
Needs review6Sources have landed but the lane is not promoted to wired yet.
Needs reviewFAA regulatory-action documents
10 sources

Retrieve the January 2024 Emergency Airworthiness Directive and the ACSAA Section 103 expert-review-panel report, and confirm whether the production limit carried a specific per-month figure and whether it remains in force.

timeline18
roles10
release asks0
Connected roles
The Boeing CompanyU.S. Department of Justice, Criminal Division (Fraud Section)U.S. District Court, Northern District of Texas
Release requests
No release request is attached to this lane yet.
PublishesThe airworthiness-directive number and text, expert-panel findings, and any source-confirmed production-cap terms.
BlockedAsserting a numeric production cap before it is sourced to a primary FAA document.
Needs reviewNTSB final report text extraction
8 sources

Extract the verbatim probable-cause statement and the full safety-recommendation list from the AIR-25-04 PDF or the NTSB docket abstract.

timeline15
roles9
release asks0
Connected roles
The Boeing CompanyU.S. Department of Justice, Criminal Division (Fraud Section)U.S. District Court, Northern District of Texas
Release requests
No release request is attached to this lane yet.
PublishesThe exact probable-cause quote, recommendation identifiers, and the factual sequence.
BlockedPublishing graphic injury detail or inferring legal liability from NTSB findings.
Needs reviewDOJ primary court documents
7 sources

Fetch the justice.gov-hosted deferred prosecution agreement, criminal information, December 5, 2024 rejection opinion, May 29, 2025 non-prosecution agreement, and November 6, 2025 dismissal order (and the govinfo USCOURTS docket set), since justice.gov blocks automated fetch.

timeline15
roles9
release asks0
Connected roles
The Boeing CompanyU.S. Department of Justice, Criminal Division (Fraud Section)U.S. District Court, Northern District of Texas
Release requests
No release request is attached to this lane yet.
PublishesVerbatim charge language, agreement terms, and court reasoning with pinpoint citations.
BlockedParaphrasing document terms as verified facts without the document, or describing any outcome as a conviction.
Needs reviewFifth Circuit appellate posture
7 sources

Monitor the Fifth Circuit docket and the DOJ case page for the ruling on the pending petition for rehearing en banc.

timeline15
roles9
release asks0
Connected roles
The Boeing CompanyU.S. Department of Justice, Criminal Division (Fraud Section)U.S. District Court, Northern District of Texas
Release requests
No release request is attached to this lane yet.
PublishesDocket-sourced status updates.
BlockedPredicting or characterizing the likely outcome of the pending petition.
Needs reviewCongressional report full texts and 2024 hearings
3 sources

Fetch the House 238-page report PDF and the Senate Commerce report PDF, and locate the 2024 Senate hearing records on Boeing's safety culture.

timeline4
roles3
release asks0
Connected roles
Federal Aviation AdministrationHouse Committee on Transportation and InfrastructureSenate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
Release requests
No release request is attached to this lane yet.
PublishesFindings with page citations and hearing dates, witnesses, and official statements.
BlockedPresenting whistleblower allegations as proven facts.
Needs reviewRelated individual prosecution
7 sources

Locate and fetch the separate court docket and disposition for any former Boeing 737 MAX technical pilot before naming an individual.

timeline15
roles9
release asks0
Connected roles
The Boeing CompanyU.S. Department of Justice, Criminal Division (Fraud Section)U.S. District Court, Northern District of Texas
Release requests
No release request is attached to this lane yet.
PublishesThe charge, court, and verdict or disposition exactly as stated in the court record.
BlockedNaming or associating an individual with wrongdoing absent a verified court record, or guilt-by-association with the corporate case.
Planned1Scoped as a lane; no matching source anchor exists in the file yet.
PlannedRejected plea financial and monitor terms
0 sources

Fetch the July 2024 proposed plea agreement and reconcile any dollar figures and monitor terms against the filed document; mark any figure not in the document as secondary.

timeline0
roles0
release asks0
Matched records
No matching source anchor exists in this case bundle yet.
Connected roles
No role link until an official source anchor lands.
Release requests
No release request is attached to this lane yet.
PublishesFigures and terms confirmed against the filed plea agreement.
BlockedCiting secondary dollar figures for the rejected plea as primary-verified facts.
Public utility

Help grow the source queue

Hugin accepts public records, not accusations. A submitted URL lands in a review lane, gets source-validated, and only becomes a case anchor after the evidence rules and privacy gates are satisfied.

Review posture

What this case can prove right now

Fact-check desk
publishable claims18
source repair0
known anchors17
lead quarantine0
scout targets16
first-pass scout14
credential queue2
scout connectors16
rankmedium93 priority score
readyReady for first-pass public review18 publishable claim rows / 17 source anchors / 14 first-pass source rows
actions6 start-here rows9 total workbench action rows
blockers1 launch checks2 source-scout rows require free operator keys

Fact-check status is a review posture, not a verdict. Source-scout rows are leads until a reviewer joins them to publishable anchors; claim-ledger rows are timeline-derived and still require source validation plus no-allegation guardrails before promotion.

Source intake

Queue a public record

Public queue

Paste an official or public-record URL. Hugin classifies the lane first, keeps lead-only material quarantined, and requires source validation before anything reaches the case file.

Use an official or public-record page. Local, private, leaked, or credentialed URLs are rejected.
Queue a public source for review.
Visible queue

Latest submitted public URLs

Sanitized queue view: Hugin shows the public URL, lane, status, and why a source has not been promoted. Submitter identifiers are not shown.

Public queue loaded.Live queue connectedQueue hash 3b1a7a16a094
No public submissions in this snapshot.When someone submits a source, this board will show the URL, lane, status, hold reason, and next review step before anything can become part of the case file.
known sources17
publishable anchors14
atlas sources27
keyless feeds23
release asks7
document jobs17
privacy triage5
lead quarantine0
01Submit URLPublic URL, label, and context enter the source queue.
02Classify laneOfficial, court, legislative, civil, state, repository, or lead quarantine.
03Validate sourcePublisher, date, scope, privacy, and duplicate checks run before promotion.
04Promote anchorOnly source-backed, privacy-cleared records can join timeline or role surfaces.
Contribution guide

Submit sources, not claims

A source is a public URL someone else can inspect. A claim is an interpretation. Hugin queues sources first and keeps claims out until a reviewed public record supports the exact wording.

Accepted

Official agency pages, court dockets, congressional releases, civil records, state updates, and public repositories with source URLs.

Publisher, date, record family, and why the URL belongs in this file.

Source URLs first. Context is welcome, but claims do not publish from submissions alone.

Not accepted

Private tips, survivor identifiers, sealed or leaked material, graphic details, and private contact data.

Screenshots or social posts without a public source URL.

Misconduct labels for living people unless the exact cited public record supports that exact statement.

What changed

Case change ledger

Audit feed for source anchors, queue decisions, privacy-review jobs, and hashes. It explains the process without turning leads into claims.

Change ledger loaded.Ledger hash de4d2d05a35bCase hash 9d912c89337a
Safety posture

Locked to public records and bounded intake

Post throttleSource intake is DB-rate-limited to 6 submissions per minute per network key before a record is written.
Public URL onlyLocalhost, private networks, URL credentials, unsupported protocols, malformed URLs, and overlong fields are rejected.
No paid callsThe data export links render deterministic public-record payloads. They do not call LLMs or paid upstream APIs.
Identity minimizedSubmitter material is converted to a server-side HMAC hash, and the public queue does not return raw IPs or user agents.