Legal Opinion
In Re Air Crash at Schenley Golf Course, Etc.
United States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation
Decided November 14, 1979No. 390Published
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER
2Per curiam
I. BACKGROUND
This litigation consists of six actions pending in four districts: three actions in the Western District of Pennsylvania, and one action each in the District of Delaware, the Northern District of Indiana, and the District of Utah.
On August 21,1977, a Beechcraft Bonanza airplane crashed on Schenley Park Golf Course in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Glen Shaw (Shaw), the pilot of the aircraft; Richard J. Heckel (Heckel) and Heckel’s wife were the only people aboard the airplane at the time of the crash, and Heckel’s wife was the only fatality.
In August, 1978, Heckel…
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