In re Air Crash Disaster Near Silver Plume

*811OPINION AND ORDER

Before ALFRED P. MURRAH, Chairman and JOHN MINOR WISDOM, EDWARD WEINFELD, EDWIN A. ROBSON, WILLIAM H. BECKER, JOSEPH S. LORD, III, and. STANLEY A. WEI-GEL, Judges of the Panel. PER CURIAM.

The above-captioned action arose out of the crash of a charter aircraft in the fall of 1970. We initially transferred all actions in this litigation to the District of Kansas and, with the consent of that court, assigned them to Judge Frank G. Theis for coordinated or consolidated pretrial proceedings. In re Silver Plume, Colorado, Air Disaster Litigation, 352 F.Supp. 968 (Jud.Pan.Mult.…