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RAPP v. EASTERN AIR LINES, INC.

Civ. A. Nos. 30078, 30079, 30284 and 30346.

264 F.Supp. 673 (1967)

Howard H. RAPP, Administrator of the Estate of Richard F. Zeller, Deceased v. EASTERN AIR LINES, INC., Lockheed Aircraft Corporation, General Motors Corporation and the United States of America. Dudley A. WARD v. EASTERN AIR LINES, INC., Lockheed Aircraft Corporation, General Motors Corporation and the United States of America. Nancy A. FRANKENFIELD, Administratrix of the Estate of George B. Frankenfield, Jr., Deceased v. EASTERN AIR LINES, INC., Lockheed Aircraft Corporation, General Motors Corporation and the United States of America. Donald A. SCOTT, Administrator of the Estate of Thomas L. Moody, Deceased v. EASTERN AIR LINES, INC., Lockheed Aircraft Corporation, General Motors Corporation and the United States of America.

United States District Court E. D. Pennsylvania.

As Amended January 25, 1967.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John R. McConnell, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, Philadelphia, Pa., for plaintiffs.

William T. Conlan, Ely, Bartlett, Brown & Proctor, Boston, Mass., for defendant, Eastern Air Lines, Inc.

Sidney L. Wickenhaver, Montgomery, McCracken, Walker & Rhoads, Philadelphia, Pa., for defendant, Lockheed Aircraft Corp.

F. Hastings Griffin, Jr., Dechert, Price & Rhoads, Philadelphia, Pa., for defendant, General Motors Corp.

Philip Silverman, U. S. Dept. of Justice, Civ. Div., Washington, D. C., for defendant, The United States.

GENERAL FINDINGS OF FACT, SPECIFIC FINDINGS OF FACT, DISCUSSION, CONCLUSIONS OF LAW, AND JUDGMENT

WOOD, District Judge.

GENERAL FINDINGS OF FACT

On October 4, 1960, Eastern Air Lines Flight 375 crashed into the waters of Boston Harbor just outside Logan Airport in Boston, Massachusetts. The plane was on a commercial flight from Boston to Philadelphia. Fifty-nine passengers and the three crewmen were killed; 10 persons survived. The air-plane was...

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