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

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

704 F.Supp. 1135 (1988)

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

United States District Court, District of Columbia.

November 7, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel M. Kolko, Milton G. Sincoff and Steven R. Pounian, Kreindler & Kreindler, New York City, N.Y., for plaintiff.

Donald Madole, Speiser, Krause & Madole, Washington, D.C., for plaintiff.

George N. Tompkins, Jr., Condon & Forsyth, Washington, D.C., New York City, for defendant.

MEMORANDUM

AUBREY E. ROBINSON, Jr., Chief Judge.

On September 1, 1983, 269 persons aboard Korean Air Lines Flight 007 ("KE 007") tragically died while en route from New York to Seoul, South Korea. The first leg of the trip — from New York to Anchorage, Alaska — was uneventful; but during the trip from Anchorage to Seoul the flight strayed off-course into Soviet airspace, and Soviet military aircraft shot it down over the Sea of Japan. Many...

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