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VARKONYI v. VARIG

22 N.Y.2d 333 (1968)

Livia Varkonyi, Individually and as Parent of Laszlo Varkonyi and Another, Infants, Appellant, v. S. A. Empresa De Viacao Airea Rio Grandense (Varig) et al., Respondents, et al., Defendant. Nancy M. Faulkner et al., as Administrators of The Estate of Edward B. Faulkner, Deceased, et al., Appellants, v. S. A. Empresa De Viacao Airea Rio Grandense (Varig) et al., Respondents, et al., Defendants. Christina Alvarez, Individually and as Parent and Guardian of Carlos G. Alvarez and Others, Infants, et al., Appellants, v. S. A. Empresa De Viacao Airea Rio Grandense (Varig) et al., Respondents, et al., Defendant.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided June 14, 1968.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Theodore E. Wolcott for appellants.

John H. Montgomery, Jr. and William L. Schierberl for S. A. Empresa De Viacao Airea Rio Grandense (Varig), respondent.

James M. FitzSimons for Boeing Company, respondent.

Judges BURKE, SCILEPPI, BERGAN, BREITEL and JASEN concur with Chief Judge FULD; Judge KEATING dissents in part in a separate opinion.

Chief Judge FULD.

A Boeing 707 type aircraft, on a flight from Rio de Janerio, Brazil, to Los Angeles, California, crashed while attempting to land in Lima, Peru, on November 27, 1962. All of the passengers, including the plaintiffs' decedents — Zoltan Varkonyi, a national of Hungary, residing in Brazil at the time of his death, Edward Faulkner, a British national, and Carlos Alvarez, a Mexican national...

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