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Technically it's not the difference, the possible 20 years is actually from deliberately obstructing a federal investigation.

Incidentally, I don't know if deliberately crashing a plane is a criminal act in and of itself, because planes occasionally get crashed as part of safety studies. So it seems that the offense in the actual plane crash is that he traded others' safety for his own profit, rather than the crash per se. But that is very similar to Boeing.

>>nirimd+(OP)
There is nothing similar between this guy and Boeing. Boeing hid development issues and cheated (oversimplified) with certification. They tried to blame other parties, pilots and airlines, for those life losses. That is despicable. But they did not intentionally crash a plane, and try to hide it. They did not intentionally build an unsafe aircraft with the goal of killing people.

That guy planned a plane crash for social media likes, and tried to cover it up. Actively.

Those two cases are nothing a like, not even remotely.