In Re Aircraft Acc. at Barrow, Alaska, Etc.

OPINION AND ORDER

Before MURRAY I. GURFEIN, Chairman, and EDWIN A. ROBSON, STANLEY A. WEIGEL, ANDREW A. CAFFREY, ROY W. HARPER, and CHARLES R. WEINER, Judges of the Panel. PER CURIAM.

This litigation consists of four actions pending in four districts: one action each in the District of the District of Columbia, the Northern District of Illinois, the District of Maryland and the Southern District of Ohio.

On October 13, 1978, a DeHavilland DHC-6 Twin Otter aircraft crashed while approaching for a landing at the Barrow, Alaska airfield. Only two people were aboard the aircraft, and the pilot was…