Legal Opinion
Wenche Siemer, Etc. v. The Learjet Acquisition Corp., Mayade Bahri Helwani, Etc. v. The Learjet Acquisition Corp.
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided August 20, 1992No. 91-4745PublishedCited by 82 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EDWIN F. HUNTER, Jr., District Judge:
Plaintiffs are the survivors of the co-pilot (Michael M. Grandclement) and of two of the passengers (Peter I. Siemer and Alad-dine H. Bahri 2 ) on board Learjet N-711AF, which crashed on August 11, 1979 while en route from Athens, Greece to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The aircraft disappeared while traversing Egyptian airspace. The wreckage of the aircraft was discovered nearly eight (8) years later in the Egyptian desert.
In sum, plaintiffs’ decedents disappeared from the face of the earth on August 11, 1979, when the plane they were flying disappeared over…
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