Civil trial over payouts to families of Ethiopia Boeing crash victims to proceed

The first civil trial related to the crash of a Boeing airplane in Ethiopia was set to proceed in the United States on Wednesday, six years after the disaster killed all 157 people on board.

Boeing has settled most of the dozens of wrongful death lawsuits that families of the victims filed against the company, but a federal court jury was selected on Tuesday in two of the remaining cases.

Lawyers for the families and the US aircraft…