CHICAGO — More than six years after a Boeing 737 Max jetliner crashed in Ethiopia, the first civil trial related to the disaster that killed all 157 people on board appears poised to move forward.

Boeing has settled most of the dozens of wrongful death lawsuits that families of the victims filed against the aircraft maker after the March 2019 crash, but jury selection began Tuesday in two of the remaining cases in federal court.

The trial in Chicago, where Boeing used to have its headquarters, isn’t expected to examine the the company’s liability. Boeing already accepted responsibility for what happened to Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 and for a similar 737 Max crash five months earlier off the Indonesian coast that killed 189 passengers and crew.

Instead, an eight-person jury would be

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