In re Air Crash Disaster at Anchorage, Alaska on November 27, 1970

OPINION AND ORDER

On November 27, 1970, a military charter flight operated by Capitol International Airways enroute to Vietnam crashed near Anchorage, Alaska. Forty-six passengers and one crew member were fatally injured, eighteen persons were seriously injured and thirty-four sustained minor injuries. Three cases' arising out of this crash are now pending in three different districts. On its own initiative the Panel has considered transfer of these actions to a single district for coordinated or consolidated pre*756trial proceedings. After considering the responses of the parties and the…