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IN RE KOREAN AIR LINES DISASTER OF SEPT. 1, 1983

MDL No. 565. Misc. No. 83-0345.

646 F.Supp. 30 (1986)

In re KOREAN AIR LINES DISASTER OF SEPTEMBER 1, 1983.

United States District Court, District of Columbia.

May 7, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Juanita M. Madole, Liaison Counsel, Speiser, Krause & Madole, Washington, D.C., for plaintiff.

George N. Tompkins, Jr., Condon & Forsyth, Washington, D.C., for defendant Korean Air Lines.

Mark A. Dombroff, Torts Branch, Civ. Div., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., for defendant U.S.

John J. Martin, Bigham, Englar, Jones & Houston, New York City, for defendant Litton Industries, Inc.

Mary Rose Hughes, Perkins, Coie, Stone, Olsen & Williams, Washington, D.C., for defendant The Boeing Co.

Embassy of U.S.S.R., Washington, D.C., for defendant Soviet Socialist Republic.

MEMORANDUM

AUBREY E. ROBINSON, Jr., Chief Judge.

On September 1, 1983, 269 passengers including plaintiffs' decedents tragically died while en route from New York to Seoul, South Korea when Soviet military aircraft shot down Korean Air Lines Flight 007 over the Sea of Japan. Plaintiffs filed these suits for damages against several defendants including the United States government for allegedly breaching a duty it owed to the passengers. The Judicial Panel...

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