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A federal judge in Texas on Thursday dismissed a criminal conspiracy case against Boeing over two crashes of its 737 Max jetliner that killed 346 people, despite expressing sharp skepticism about the wisdom of the Department of Justice 's request that he toss the case.

Some families of victims of the crashes had strongly opposed the DOJ 's move in May asking Judge Reed O'Connor to dismiss the case in U.S. District Court in Fort Worth.

The dismissal comes more than a year after Boeing and the DOJ said they had reached an agreement that required the company to plead guilty and serve a term of probation.

The first crash, of Lion Air Flight 610 in Indonesia occurred in late October 2018, and the seco

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