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PAN AMERICAN WORLD AIR., INC. v. AETNA CAS. & SUR. CO.

Nos. 771, 929, 930, Dockets 73-2604, 73-2606, 73-2766.

505 F.2d 989 (1974)

PAN AMERICAN WORLD AIRWAYS, INC., Plaintiff-Appellee-Appellant. v. The AETNA CASUALTY & SURETY CO. et al., Defendants-Appellants, and The United States of America, Defendant-Appellee-Appellant, and Philip Gaybell Wright et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided October 15, 1974.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James C. Blair, New York City, (Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, New York City, on the brief, Fowler Hamilton, Roger E. Berg, New York City, of counsel), for plaintiff-appellee-appellant.

Lawrence E. Walsh, New York City (Davis Polk & Wardwell, New York City, on the brief, Henry L. King, Guy Miller Struve, Bartlett H. McGuire, Charles J. Moxley, Jr., Jack P. Levin, New York City, of counsel; Bigham Englar Jones & Houston, New York City, on the brief as co-counsel for defendants-appellants David Linton Dann, and others, John J. Martin, New York City of counsel), for defendants-appellants.

Mel P. Barkan, Asst. U. S. Atty., S. D. N. Y. (Paul J. Curran, U. S. Atty. S. D. N. Y., on the brief, Daniel H. Murphy, II, Gerald A. Rosenberg, Asst. U. S. Attys., of counsel), for the defendant-appellee-appellant.

William E. Hegarty, New York City (Mendes & Mount, New York City, on the brief, Matthew J. Corrigan, Stephen E. Cohen and Cahill Gordon & Reindel, Floyd Abrams, Roger S. Fine, Michael P. Tierney, New York City, of counsel), for defendants-appellees.

Before HAYS and OAKES, Circuit Judges, and CHRISTENSEN, District Judge.

HAYS, Circuit Judge:

On September 6, 1970 Pan American Flight 083, while on a regularly scheduled flight from Brussels to New York, was hijacked in the sky over London about 45 minutes after it had taken off from an intermediate stop in Amsterdam. Two men, Diop and Gueye, acting for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine [the "PFLP"], forced the crew of the aircraft to fly to Beirut, where a demolitions expert and explosives were put on board. The aircraft...

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