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INGHAM v. EASTERN AIR LINES, INC.

Nos. 273, 274, Dockets 30785, 30786.

373 F.2d 227 (1967)

Grace A. INGHAM, as Executrix of the Estate of Paul B. Ingham, deceased, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. EASTERN AIR LINES, INC., Defendant and Third-Party Plaintiff-Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Third-Party Defendant-Appellee. Grace A. INGHAM, as Executrix of the Estate of Paul B. Ingham, Deceased, Plaintiff-Appellee, and Rita Freedman, as Administratrix of the Estate of Milton Freedman, deceased, Plaintiff, v. UNITED STATES of America, Defendant and Third-Party Plaintiff-Appellant, v. EASTERN AIR LINES, INC., Third-Party Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Second Circuit.

Filed February 14, 1967.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John J. Martin, New York City (Frank A. Weidknecht, III, Bigham, Englar, Jones & Houston, New York City, of counsel) for appellant Eastern Air Lines, Inc.

John C. Eldridge, Atty., Department of Justice, Washington, D. C. (Barefoot Sanders, Asst. Atty. Gen., Joseph P. Hoey, U. S. Atty., for the Eastern District of New York, and Morton Hollander, Atty., Department of Justice, Washington, D. C., on the brief; Wallace E. Maloney, Atty., Department of Justice, Washington, D. C., of counsel), for appellant United States of America.

Lee S. Kreindler, New York City (Milton G. Sincoff, Stanley J. Levy, Kreindler & Kreindler, New York City, of counsel), for appellee Grace A. Ingham.

Before WATERMAN, MOORE and KAUFMAN, Circuit Judges.

IRVING R. KAUFMAN, Circuit Judge.

During the past half century we have witnessed the metamorphosis of air travel from a pioneering effort to a mode of transportation that is commonplace for millions of Americans. Yet despite the phenomenal advances which have been made in the technology of the industry, airplane crashes, often unexplained, continue to distress us.

The present suits arose from a plane crash which occurred at Idlewild International Airport ...

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