Legal Opinion
Jennings v. Boeing Co.
District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania
Decided May 18, 1987No. Civ. A. 86-6639PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER
VANARTSDALEN, Senior District Judge.
On November 6, 1986, a Boeing Vertol 234 Chinook helicopter crashed into the North Sea approximately 2.5 miles off the Shetland Islands, Scotland, with forty-seven persons aboard. Killed in the crash were 45 persons, all of whom, except for three crew members, were workers at the Brent Oil platform in the North Sea. One passenger and one crew member survived. All passengers and crew were apparently British subjects. At the time of the crash, the helicopter, which had been manufactured by the Boeing Company (Boeing) in…
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