Ridout v. Pan American World Airways, Inc.

OPINION AND ORDER

The Panel, pursuant' to 28 U.S.C. § 1407, previously centralized several actions in this litigation in the Southern District of New York for coordinated or consolidated pretrial proceedings before the Honorable Robert J. Ward. In re Air Crash Disaster at Tenerife, Canary Islands on March 27, 1977, 435 F.Supp. 927 (Jud.Pan.Mult.Lit. 1977). These actions arose from a March 27, 1977 collision on the runway at the Los Rodeos Airport in Tenerife, Canary Islands between a Boeing 747 jet aircraft being operated by KLM-Royal Dutch Airlines (KLM) and a Boeing 747 jet aircraft being…