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REIDINGER v. TRANS WORLD AIRLINES, INC.

Nos. 71-1727 to 71-1735.

463 F.2d 1017 (1972)

Lawrence REIDINGER, Jr., Admr., D.B.N., et al., Plaintiff-Appellee, v. TRANS WORLD AIRLINES, INC., et al., Defendants-Appellants. J. Bruce MILLER, Admr. of the Estates of Jerry L. Rhodes, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. UNITED STATES of America, Defendant-Appellee. The CENTRAL TRUST COMPANY, Extr. of the Estates of Milton P. Link, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. UNITED STATES of America, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

July 6, 1972.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

No. 71-1727:

John J. O'Hara, O'Hara, Ruberg & Cetrulo, Covington, Ky., Daniel J. O'Neill, Chadbourne, Parke, Whiteside & Wolff, New York City, on brief, for defendants-appellants.

James Q. Doran, Cohen, Todd, Kite & Spiegel, Cincinnati, Ohio, Marshall C. Hunt, Jr., Cincinnati, Ohio, on brief, for plaintiff-appellee.

Nos. 71-1728 to 71-1732:

Thomas C. Carroll, Louisville, Ky., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Leonard Schaitman, Department of Justice, Washington, D. C., Kathryn H. Baldwin, Department of Justice, Washington, D. C., L. Patrick Gray, III, Asst. Atty. Gen., Eugene E. Siler, Jr., U. S. Atty., on brief, for defendant-appellee.

Nos. 71-1733 to 71-1735:

John W. Beatty, Cincinnati, Ohio, William L. Blum, Cincinnati, Ohio, on brief, for plaintiffs-appellants.

Leonard Schaitman, Department of Justice, Washington, D. C., Kathryn H. Baldwin, Department of Justice, Washington, D. C., L. Patrick Gray, III, Asst. Atty. Gen., Eugene E. Siler, Jr., U. S. Atty., on brief, for defendant-appellee.

Before MILLER and KENT, Circuit Judges, and FEIKENS, District Judge.

FEIKENS, District Judge.

On November 20, 1967, a Trans World Airlines Convair 880 jet aircraft crashed while on final approach to a landing at Greater Cincinnati Airport in Kentucky. Sixty-five passengers and five crew members died. Ten passengers and two crew members survived.

This crash was the subject matter of a number of suits commenced in various United States District Courts. The Judicial Panel for Multi-District Litigation, in an opinion and order...

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