Legal Opinion
In Re Korean Air Lines Disaster of September 1, 1983
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided May 7, 1986No. MDL No. 565. Misc. No. 83-0345PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM
AUBREY E. ROBINSON, Jr., Chief Judge.
On September 1, 1983, 269 passengers including plaintiffs’ decedents tragically died while en route from New York to Seoul, South Korea when Soviet military aircraft shot down Korean Air Lines Flight 007 over the Sea of Japan. Plaintiffs filed these suits for damages against several defendants including the United States government for allegedly breaching a duty it owed to the passengers. The Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation transferred the cases, which had been filed in judicial districts across the country, to this Court.
Before the…
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3Cited by9 opinions
- In Re Korean Air Lines Disaster of September 1, 1983, Korean Air Lines Company, Ltd.Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1991
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- In Re Korean Air Lines Disaster of September 1, 1983District Court, District of Columbia · 1988
- Wyler v. Korean Air Lines Co.Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1991
- Wyler v. Korean Air Lines Company, Ltd.Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1991
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