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DELTA AIR LINES, INC. v. UNITED STATES

Nos. 76-1269, 76-1270.

561 F.2d 381 (1977)

DELTA AIR LINES, INC., Plaintiff, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Defendant, Appellee. Karen Haelsig McMASTER, etc., et al., Plaintiffs, Appellants, v. UNITED STATES of America, Defendant, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided August 12, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George N. Tompkins, Jr., New York City, with whom Robert Fulton, Boston, Mass., and Condon & Forsyth, New York City, were on brief for appellant in No. 76-1269.

Michael B. Latti, and Alan R. Hoffman, Boston, Mass., with whom Kaplan, Latti & Flannery, Boston, Mass., were on brief for appellants in No. 76-1270.

Michael J. Pangia, Atty., U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., with whom James N. Gabriel, U.S. Atty., Boston, Mass., was on brief for appellee.

Before COFFIN, Chief Judge, CAMPBELL, Circuit Judge, GIGNOUX, District Judge.

LEVIN H. CAMPBELL, Circuit Judge.

On July 31, 1973, a Delta Air Line DC-9 aircraft crashed during an approach in fog to Logan International Airport in Boston, Massachusetts. Eighty-three passengers, the crew of five and a Delta cockpit observer died in the accident.

The various lawsuits arising out of the accident were transferred for pretrial proceedings in the District of Massachusetts. See, e. g., In re Delta Airlines Crash at Boston, Massachusetts,...

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