Legal Opinion
Schoenborn v. Boeing Co.
District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania
Decided May 15, 1984No. MDL 555; Civ.A. No. 82-4339PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER
WEINER, District Judge.
This action arises out of a helicopter crash near Mannheim, West Germany on September 11, 1982. The helicopter (helicopter 22292), a United States Army CH-47C “Chinook”, was designed, manufactured, and assembled in Pennsylvania by *715Boeing-Vertol, a division of defendant Boeing. As a result of the accident, all forty-six members of the crew and passengers on board were killed. The crash was caused by the blade to blade contact of the helicopter’s tandem rotor blades due to a failure of its synchronization system.
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2Cases cited25 opinions
- United States v. United States Gypsum Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1978
- Gilligan v. MorganSupreme Court of the United States · 1973
- Azzarello v. Black Bros. Co., Inc.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1978
- Neville Chemical Company v. Union Carbide CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1970
- Majors v. Brodhead HotelSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1965
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3Cited by5 opinions
- Edwin Lees Shaw, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Gary Scott Shaw, Deceased v. Grumman Aerospace CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1985
- Shaw v. Grumman Aerospace Corp.District Court, S.D. Florida · 1984
- In Re Air Crash Disaster at Mannheim, GermanyDistrict Court, E.D. Pennsylvania · 1984
- John C. Rainey, Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Barbara A. Rainey v. Beech Aircraft Corporation, Beech Aerospace Services, Inc., and Pratt and Whitney Aircraft of Canada, Ltd., Rondi M. Knowlton, Individually and as Personnel Representative of the Estate of Donald Bruce Knowlton v. Beech Aircraft Corporation, Beech Aerospace Services, Inc., and Pratt and Whitney Aircraft of Canada, Ltd.Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1987
- Rainey v. Beech Aircraft Corp.Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1987