Legal Opinion
In Re Korean Air Lines Disaster of September 1, 1983
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided April 18, 1984No. MDL No. 565, Misc. No. 83-0345, Civ. A. Nos. 83-2792 to 83-2794, 83-2940, 83-2941, 83-3007, 83-CIV-3154, 83-CIV-3177, 83-3449 to 83-3453, 83-3455 and 83-3464 to 83-3466PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
AUBREY E. ROBINSON, Jr., Chief Judge.
This matter, In re Korean Air Lines Disaster of September 1, 1983, comes to this Court pursuant to the November 16, 1983 transfer order of the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation. 575 F.Supp. 342. The cases involved have been brought in judicial districts around the country as the result of the deaths of 269 passengers, including plaintiffs’ decedents, killed when Korean Air Lines Flight 007, en route to Kimpo Airport, Seoul, South Korea from Kennedy International Airport, New York, was shot down over the Sea of Japan by a Soviet…
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