Legal Opinion
Schneider v. Lockheed Aircraft Corp.
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided June 17, 1981No. Nos. 80-1844, 80-1960, 80-2118, 80-1845, 80-1959, 80-2119, 81-1200 and 81-1337PublishedCited by 89 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion for the Court PER CURIAM.
2Per curiam
These personal injury actions arose from the explosive decompression and subsequent crash near Saigon, South Vietnam on April 4, 1975 of a Lockheed C5A Galaxy aircraft. The plane was carrying 258 Vietnamese orphans bound for adoptive homes in the United States and abroad. One hundred forty-four of the approximately 327 persons aboard the plane died; 150 orphans survived. One year later, Friends for All Children (FFAC), the nonprofit adoption agency that had originally arranged the flight, filed suit on behalf of the 150 surviving orphans against Lockheed…
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