Rademacher v. McDonnell Douglas Corp.

ORDER

JULIAN ABELE COOK, Jr., Chief Judge.

Roberta Elizabeth Rademacher, who was employed by Northwest Airlines, Inc. (Northwest) to work as a flight attendant on Flight 255 on August 16, 1987, died in the air crash at the Detroit Metropolitan Airport in Detroit, Michigan. It is uncon-troverted that she was due to give birth on January 3, 1988. Plaintiff’s Answer to Interrogatory No. 18. The fetus did not survive the air crash. Plaintiff, Charles M. Rademacher, surviving husband and father of the unborn fetus, filed a Complaint as the personal representative of the unborn child, in which he…