A cynical person might wonder if Boeing was just saying stuff to keep the price afloat until the insiders could legally sell. Like everything else in this strange and tragic saga, making an announcement about a specific time that you expect an independent government agency over which you supposedly have no control to give you an approval is just bizarre. It is completely outside of my experience of acceptable corporate behavior, but maybe after Enron I shouldn't be as surprised as I am,
That Boeing gets away with it says something about how messed up things are here.