Legal Opinion
In Re Korean Air Lines Disaster of September 1, 1983
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided November 7, 1988No. MDL No. 565. Misc. No. 83-0345PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
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 of decedents’ representatives filed suits against several defendants; as a result of prior decisions of this Court, Korean Air Lines (“KAL”) is the sole…
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3Cited by26 opinions
- In Re Korean Air Lines Disaster of September 1, 1983, Korean Air Lines Company, Ltd.Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1991
- In Re Air Disaster at Lockerbie, Scotland on December 21, 1988. Denice H. Rein v. Pan American World Airways Incorporated, in Re Hijacking of Pan American World Airways, Inc. Aircraft at Karachi International Airport, Pakistan on September 5, 1986. Dilip Joshi, Nadya Hussain, Tahra Lodhi, Dilip Parikh, Faraidoon Oshtory v. Pan American World Airways, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1991
- United States v. Philip Morris USA, Inc.District Court, District of Columbia · 2006
- Mohammad Ali Saba v. Compagnie Nationale Air FranceCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1996
- In Re Korean Air Lines Disaster of September 1, 1983District Court, S.D. New York · 1992
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