WASHINGTON, July 18 (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Friday

said he will hold an Aug. 28 hearing on a request by the Justice

Department and Boeing ( BA ) to approve an agreement that allows

the planemaker to avoid prosecution.

The deal, which faces objections from relatives of some of the

346 people killed in two 737 MAX crashes in 2018 and 2019,

enables Boeing ( BA ) to escape oversight from an independent monitor

for three years. Boeing ( BA ) last year agreed to plead guilty under a

deal with prosecutors to a criminal fraud charge that it misled

U.S. regulators about a crucial flight control system on the 737

MAX.