Legal Opinion

In Re Air Crash Disaster Near Upperville, Virginia

United States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation

Decided April 29, 1975No. 199PublishedCited by 6 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION AND ORDER

2Per curiam

A Boeing 727 aircraft, being operated as Trans World Airlines Flight 514, crashed into a mountainside on December 1, 1974, as it was descending for its approach to Dulles International Airport near Washington, D. C. All 92 persons aboard the plane died as a result of the crash. At the present time, nineteen actions arising from this disaster are pending in four different districts: fifteen in the Eastern District of Virginia, two in the Northern District of California, one in the Northern District of Illinois and one in the Southern District of New York. 1

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3Cases cited3 opinions

In Re Air Crash Disaster at Fla. Everglades, Dec. 29, 1972United States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation · 1973
In Re Air Crash Disaster at Huntington, West VirginiaUnited States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation · 1972
In re Delta Airlines Crash at Boston, Massachusetts, on July 31, 1973United States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation · 1974

4Cited by6 opinions

In re Air Crash DisasterUnited States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation · 1975
In Re Air Crash Disaster at Stapleton International AirportUnited States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation · 1978
In Re Air Crash Disaster Near Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana, on September 20, 1973United States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation · 1976
In Re Air Crash Disaster Near Upperville, Va.United States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation · 1977
In Re Air Crash at Schenley Golf Course, Etc.United States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation · 1979

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