Barring an accord, the case will be Boeing's first civil trial over the MAX crashes

Beleaguered aviation giant Boeing is set to confront another hurdle next week when it faces a civil trial over the March 2019 Ethiopian Airlines crash that killed 157 people.

Beleaguered aviation giant Boeing is set to confront another hurdle next week when it faces a civil trial over the March 2019 Ethiopian Airlines crash that killed 157 people. The MCAS was a flight stabilizing system that malfunctioned in both the Ethiopian Airlines and in the October 2018 Lion Air crash in Indonesia, which killed 189 people.