Boeing certainly deserves to be investigated and prosecuted, if the evidence supports it, but arbitrarily refusing to let them talk to the media is wrong.
"The NTSB said that during a media briefing on Tuesday, a Boeing executive provided non-public investigative information to journalists about the Alaska Airlines incident that the agency had not verified or authorized for release."
That doesn't seem unreasonable to me.
I think "non-public" is key here ...
It is customary for someone to answer "I/We will withhold any comments pending an ongoing investigation." against such questions. If you violate that, at best you're a flaming idiot and at worst you're trying to derail the investigation.
All that to say: If you're under investigation, kindly STFU until the dust has settled and everything is finished.
Are the NTSB and DOJ so easily swayed that Boeing's words will negate their ability to tell fact from fiction? And if so, why should we listen to them at all?
Protecting a government narrative is NOT a valid reason to suppress speech. That is the path to despotism.
Something along the lines of "if the findings are negative then the system is rigged against us."