Dietz v. Avco Corp.

MEMORANDUM

STENGEL, District Judge

This action involves the crash of a private plane in Kansas City, Missouri, and the resultant death of its pilot and his wife. The decedents’ estates and family originally filed this action in the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County, alleging various state claims against four sets of defendants.1 The Continental Defendants timely removed the case here alleging diversity jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1332, removal jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1441, and federal officer removal jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1442. The plaintiffs have filed a timely…