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PESCATORE v. PAN AMERICAN WORLD AIRWAYS, INC.

No. 928, Docket 95-7637.

97 F.3d 1 (1996)

Faith PESCATORE, as personal representative and administratrix of the Goods, Chattels and Credits of Michael C. Pescatore, deceased, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. PAN AMERICAN WORLD AIRWAYS, INC., Pan Am World Services, Inc., and Alert Management Systems, Inc., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided September 9, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David M. Schuller, New York City (Aaron J. Broder, Meryl I. Schwartz, Steven M. Nathan, Adam Polo, Bailey & Broder, New York City, on the brief), for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Richard M. Sharp, Washington, DC (Frederick C. Schafrick, Valerie E. Ross, J. Bradford Wiegmann, Shea & Gardner, Washington, DC, Keith D. Dunnigan, Bai, Pollock & Dunnigan, Bridgeport, CT, on the brief), for Defendants-Appellants.

Before MINER, JACOBS and CABRANES, Circuit Judges.

JACOBS, Circuit Judge:

On December 21, 1988, a bomb in a suit-case aboard Pan Am flight 103 exploded, causing the aircraft to crash at Lockerbie, Scotland. All 243 passengers and 16 crew members died. Many of the decedents' survivors brought wrongful death actions under Article 17 of the Warsaw Convention against Pan American World Airways and two affiliated corporations, Pan Am World Services and Alert Management Systems (collectively, "Pan Am"). See Convention...

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