The Department of Justice is offering a plea deal to Boeing to avoid a trial on the company’s safety failures. The deal slaps the company with a fine and a few years of monitoring. It is unacceptable after the series of crashes in recent years. These debacles have revealed a company with deep-seated problems that require a harsher punishment to produce the needed changes.

After the deadly crashes in 2018 and 2019, Boeing paid fines and promised to make changes to avoid criminal charges. In May, the Department of Justice found that Boeing had not made the required changes. On Sunday, the families of the victims announced that the Department of Justice was hoping to reach a plea deal with Boeing. This deal would require Boeing to plead guilty to one count of fraud, pay $244 million as a fine, and have an independent monitor oversee its operations for three years.