Legal Opinion
In Re Mid-Air Collision Near Fairland, Indiana
United States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation
Decided February 10, 1970No. 30PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER
2Per curiam
On September 9, 1969 an Allegheny Airlines DC-9 enroute from Cincinnati, Ohio to Indianapolis, Indiana collided with a Piper Cherokee and crashed near Shelbyville, Indiana. The 78 passengers and the four crew members of the DC-9 were killed. The pilot of the small aircraft was killed also. The actions on Schedule A are death actions to recover damages re- suiting from the deaths of persons killed in this disaster. 1 Following notice to all parties, a hearing was held on motions of one of the defendants and several of the plaintiffs to consider transfer of these actions to a…
3Cases cited5 opinions
- In Re Grain ShipmentsUnited States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation · 1969
- In Re Multidistrict Civil Actions Involving the Air Crash Disaster at the Greater Cincinnati AirportUnited States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation · 1968
- In Re Multidistrict Civil Actions Involving the Mid-Air Collision Near HendersonvilleUnited States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation · 1969
- In Re Multidistrict Civil Actions Involving the Air Crash DisasterUnited States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation · 1968
- In re Multidistrict Civil Actions Involving the Air Crash DisasterUnited States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation · 1968
4Cited by14 opinions
- Jill Mary Kohr, of the Estate of Robert H. Kohr, Deceased v. Allegheny Airlines, Inc., and United States of America v. Forth Corporation, Third-PartyCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1974
- Allegheny Airlines, Inc., Third-Party v. Lee Lemay, as Administrator of Estate of Robert W. Carey, Deceased, Third-PartyCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1971
- In Re Air Crash Disaster at Detroit Metropolitan Airport on August 16, 1987District Court, E.D. Michigan · 1989
- Hobbs v. Northeast Airlines, Inc.District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania · 1970
- Aguirre v. Albertson's, Inc.Court of Appeals of Oregon · 2005
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