Families of 737 Max Crash Victims Urge US to Prosecute Boeing

Family members of people killed in two fatal crashes of Boeing Co.’s 737 Max jets are urging the US Justice Department to reject a possible deal that would allow the planemaker to avoid a criminal charge.

In a letter sent to the department Thursday and seen by Bloomberg, an attorney for the families described the proposed nonprosecution agreement the government is discussing with Boeing as “a remarkably bad and unprecedented resolution” of the long-running legal case and said it would be a “miscarriage of justice.” A criminal trial is set to start June 23 in Texas.

“Rather than engage ...