 Although Boeing has agreed to plead guilty to a criminal charge, it could have been a lot worse. And what families of those who died in the two accidents are saying is that this is another sweetheart deal between Boeing and the Department of Justice. It will have an official monitor in its factories to check that the kind of reforms to its safety and ethics practices that the courts require are implemented. But again, it's not a huge amount of interference in its day-to-day work.