Legal Opinion
Bates Block v. Compagnie Nationale Air France
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided November 8, 1967No. 21609_1PublishedCited by 83 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WISDOM, Circuit Judge:
June 3,1962, an Air France Boeing 707 jet liner beginning the final leg of an Atlanta-Paris-Atlanta “Jet Trip to the *325Louvre’ crashed at Orly Field, Paris, France. Everyone aboard was killed. The 122 passengers were all members of the Atlanta Art Association. February 2, 1962, the association had entered into an “International Charter Flight Agreement” with Air France for the airline to furnish the plane for the flight at the cost of $36,000.
The plaintiffs instituted forty-five actions against Air France for the deaths of sixty-two of the passengers. These actions were…
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