Nov. 6 (UPI) -- A federal judge on Thursday dismissed a criminal conspiracy case against Boeing for its flight control system that is believed to have caused two crashes that killed 346 people.
The Department of Justice had requested the dismissal in May, which was met with opposition from the families of the victims.
The flight control system was in Boeing's 737 Max jetliner. Two flights of the plane crashed: One on Ethiopian Airlines in 2019 near Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; and another on Lion Air in 2018 in Indonesia. The 737 Max was grounded for two years after the crashes.
Judge Reed O'Connor in Fort Worth, Texas, expressed concern over the motivation for the dismissal.
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