Legal Opinion
In Re Air Crash Disaster in the Ionian Sea on September 8, 1974
United States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation
Decided September 8, 1974No. 229PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TRANSFER ORDER
JOHN MINOR WISDOM, Chairman.
While en route from Athens, Greece, to Rome, Italy, Trans World Airlines, Inc. Flight No. 841, a Boeing 707 aircraft, crashed on the high seas. Included among the passengers who died as a result of the crash were 36 Americans and 43 foreign nationals.
There are 14 actions arising from this disaster presently pending in four federal districts: nine in the Southern District of New York, two in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, two in the district of Maryland and one in the Northern District of California. One of the New York actions had originally…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- In Re Multidistrict Civil Actions Involving the Air Crash DisasterUnited States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation · 1968
- In Re Duarte, California Air Crash DisasterUnited States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation · 1973
3Cited by5 opinions
- Reed v. WiserCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1977
- Reed v. WiserCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1977
- In Re Air Crash Disaster in Ionian SeaUnited States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation · 1977
- In Re Stirling Homex Corp. Securities LitigationUnited States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation · 1977
- In re Helicopter Crash Near Marsh Island, Louisiana, on December 8, 1977United States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation · 1978