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IN RE N-500L CASES

No. 81-1446.

691 F.2d 15 (1982)

In re N-500L CASES. Cornhill Insurance Company Ltd., and Corporacion Insular De Seguros, Defendants-Third Party Defendants-Appellants. Eastern Airlines, Inc., Defendant-Third Party Plaintiff-Cross Claimant-Appellee. United States of America, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided September 28, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John M. Harrington, Jr., with whom Kenneth W. Erickson, Thomas H. Hannigan, Jr., Ropes & Gray, Boston, Mass., Francisco Agrait Oliveras, and Agrait & Oliveras, Hato Rey, P. R., were on brief, for defendants-third party defendants appellants.

Carolyn A. Pickard, with whom Richard J. Thornton, Calvin F. David, and Thornton, David & Murray, P. A., Miami, Fla., were on brief, for Eastern Airlines, Inc., defendant-third party plaintiff-cross claimant-appellee.

Phillip J. Kolczynski, Aviation Trial Atty., Torts Branch, Civil Division, United States Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., with whom J. Paul McGrath, Asst. Atty. Gen., Washington, D. C., and William F. Weld, U. S. Atty., Boston, were on brief for the United States of America, defendant-appellee.

Before CAMPBELL and BOWNES, Circuit Judges and PETTINE, District Judge.

BOWNES, Circuit Judge.

This case arises out of a 1978 crash in San Juan, Puerto Rico. A twin-propeller aircraft, bearing the identification number N-500L (N-500L), was on approach for landing at San Juan International Airport when it was overtaken by an Eastern Airlines L-1011 jumbo jet (L-1011) which was also in the process of landing. It was stipulated that wake turbulence generated by the L-1011 caused the N-500L to crash, killing all six persons aboard and causing...

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