CHICAGO (AP) — The first civil trial over a Boeing 737 Max crash in Ethiopia more than six years ago opened Wednesday before a federal court jury that was asked to decide how much the American aerospace company must pay to the family of one of the 157 victims.

The eight-person jury in Chicago, where Boeing used to have its headquarters, had been expected to set financial compensation amounts for the families of two women who were among the people who died when Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 plunged to the ground in March 2019. But moments before jurors arrived in the courtroom for opening statements, U.S. District Judge Jorge Luis Alonso was notified that one of the cases had been settled out of court.

“We are grateful,” Fredrick Musau Ndivo, the father of Mercy Ndivo, a 28-year-old mothe

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