Legal Opinion
In Re Air Crash Disaster Near Saigon, Etc.
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided April 12, 1979No. Misc. 75-0205PublishedCited by 23 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM
OBERDORFER, District Judge.
There is before this Court all the litigation which has grown out of the 1975 crash near Saigon of a Lockheed-built United States Air Force C-5A transport plane carrying United States military and civilian personnel and 226 Vietnamese orphans. The orphans were aboard the plane pursuant to arrangements made for them by the United States and Friends for All Children (“FFAC”), a Colorado non-profit corporation. During the United States’ involvement in Vietnam, FFAC had provided care and shelter for orphans there and had arranged for the adoption of a number…
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