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IN RE AIR CRASH DISASTER AT NEW ORLEANS, ETC.

M.D.L. No. 64.

422 F.Supp. 1166 (1975)

In re AIR CRASH DISASTER AT NEW ORLEANS (MOISANT FIELD), LOUISIANA, ON MARCH 20, 1969.

United States District Court, W. D. Tennessee, W. D.

June 27, 1975.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James D. Causey, Memphis, Tenn., Lee S. Kreindler, Alan J. Konigsberg, Stanley J. Levy, New York City, John Knox Aycock, Robert L. Dobbs, Cecil Keltner, George T. Lewis, Memphis, Tenn., for plaintiffs.

Thomas F. Turley, Jr., U.S. Atty., W.D. Tenn., W. Hickman Ewing, Jr., Asst. U.S. Atty., W.D.Tenn., Memphis, Tenn., Elliot S. Marks, Office of the Gen. Counsel, F.A.A., Washington, D.C., for defendant.

MEMORANDUM DECISION

McRAE, District Judge.

This case was brought under the Federal Tort Claims Act. Plaintiffs' causes of action arose when a DC-3 aircraft crashed at the New Orleans, Louisiana, Airport (Moisant Field) in poor visibility conditions at approximately 6:55 A.M., C.S.T., on March 20, 1969. Of the twenty-seven persons on board, sixteen were killed, including the pilot and co-pilot and Marion Leo Hayes, a pilot-employee of the corporate owner...

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