> Boeing in January agreed to pay $2.5bn to settle criminal charges arising from the two fatal 737 Max crashes. The manufacturer did not admit guilt, however, w

> Boeing in January agreed to pay $2.5bn to settle criminal charges arising from the two fatal 737 Max crashes. The manufacturer did not admit guilt, however, which would have prevented it from receiving future government contracts. Instead, it entered into a deferred prosecution agreement. It's nice though that we have got a clear tag price on the human life now. This allows our commercial departments to quantify the risk better, and to make decisions that are commercially viable even at the expense of somebody's lives. /s