WASHINGTON—A U.S. appeals court on Friday revived a pension plan’s 2019 shareholder lawsuit against Boeing Co. officers and directors alleging they had made false public statements about the 737 MAX. The plane was involved in two crashes that killed 346 people over a five-month period and led to the plane’s grounding in March 2019. The Seafarers Pension Plan filed a lawsuit alleging that current and former Boeing officers and board members made false and misleading statements about the 737 MAX in proxy materials from 2017 through 2019. The suit seeks damages from these people on behalf of the company. A U.S. District Court judge previously dismissed the lawsuit, which was filed in U.S. District Court in Chicago, applying a Boeing bylaw that gave the company the right to insist claims be filed in a Delaware state court. In a 2–1 decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit …