Legal Opinion
Pescatore v. Pan American World Airways, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided September 9, 1996No. 928, Docket 95-7637PublishedCited by 53 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JACOBS, Circuit Judge:
On December 21, 1988, a bomb in a suitcase aboard Pan Am flight 103 exploded, causing the aircraft to crash at Lockerbie, Scotland. All 243 passengers and 16 crew members died. Many of the decedents’ survivors brought wrongful death actions under Article 17 of the Warsaw Convention against Pan American World Airways and two affiliated corporations, Pan Am World Services and Alert Management Systems (collectively, “Pan Am”). See Convention for Unification of Certain Rules Relating to International *4Transportation by Air, Oct. 12, 1929, 49 Stat. 3000, reprinted at 49 U.S.C.…
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