Boeing falls after a Boeing 737-500 passenger plane operated by Sriwijaya Air crashes into the sea Saturday off of the coast of Indonesia.
Boeing (BA) – Get Report shares declined Monday following a Boeing 737-500 passenger plane operated by Sriwijaya Air crashed Saturday into the ocean off the coast of Indonesia after taking off from Jakarta.
The plane, a 737 500 aircraft, was 26 years of age, so much older than the Boeing 737 MAX that was based in March 2019 after two fatal crashes, including a Lion Air crash in Indonesia which killed 189 individuals in 2018.
Black boxes of the plane had been located and communications information has been obtained, CNN reported.
The head of Indonesia’s National Search and Rescue Agency said late Sunday that the 2 black boxes from the Sriwijaya Air flight were thought have been detected within 150 meters to 200 meters of the crash site, based on CNN.
The Boeing 737 500 jet disappeared minutes after taking off from Jakarta, Indonesia’s capital, during heavy rain on Saturday. The Sriwijaya Air flight had 62 individuals aboard and was headed to Pontianak on the island of Borneo from the nation’s capital. Twelve on board were crew members.
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Boeing shares fell 1.81 % to $206.02 in trading Monday.
The crash comes just days after jetmaker Boeing agreed to pay a $2.5 billion fine over fraud as well as conspiracy charges linked to its 737 MAX jet program.
The settlement involves a criminal penalty of $243.6 zillion, according to the conduct of 2 former MAX program technical pilots, and the establishment of a $500 million fund to offer compensation for families of the victims of the Lion Air and also Ethiopian Airlines crashes, the company said.
Boeing said the deferred prosecution agreement with the Department of Justice, which it entered into on Thursday, is going to impact the company’s fourth quarter earnings by $743.5 million.
“I firmly believe that entering into this particular resolution is a suitable thing for us to do – a step that appropriately acknowledges how we fell short of our values as well as expectations,” said CEO Dave Calhoun. “This resolution is actually a serious reminder to all of us of just how critical the obligation of ours of transparency to regulators is, and also the effects that the business of ours is able to face if any one of us falls short of those expectations.”
