The Justice Department outlined the tentative deal in a more than two-hour meeting with families on Friday and said in a court filing on Saturday that they would have until Thursday to file written objections.
The Justice Department said in its filing “it has not decided whether to enter into the agreement or to proceed to trial, and would not make the decision until after finishing conferring with the families.”
The agreement would allow Boeing to avoid being branded a convicted felon and would be a blow to families who lost relatives in the crashes and had pressed prosecutors to take the U.S. planemaker to trial.
Boeing declined to comment.
Boeing and DOJ officials have not yet exchanged papers to negotiate final details of any nonprosecution agreement, the department said Saturday.
Boeing has faced enhanced scrutiny from the Federal Aviation Administration since January 2024, when a new MAX 9 missing four key bolts suffered a mid-air emergency losing a door plug. The FAA has capped production at 38 planes per month.
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