Thanks Willow for #625. Perhaps you are right and timing of Boeing announcements was purely fortuitous. Forgive my cynicism. I wasn’t born a cynic; it’s the product of 50 years in an industry which claims that “safety is paramount”.
More importantly the 2015 agreement between Boeing and FAA is referenced in DPA as “prior history” presumably because Boeing undertook to improve “effectiveness of regulatory compliance activities” and did not do so. Which meant Boeing could not escape blame for misbehaviour of employees 1 and 2.