AHMED v. BOEING CO.

No. 83-1446.

720 F.2d 224 (1983)

Saleem AHMED, et al., Plaintiffs, Appellants, v. The BOEING COMPANY, Defendant, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided November 3, 1983.

Rehearing Denied November 23, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Bordon, Everett, on brief, for plaintiffs, appellants.

Robert C. Gerrard, Boston, Mass., with whom Edward N. Perry, Washington, D.C., Bowker, Elmes, Perkins, Mecsas & Gerrard, Boston, Mass., Richard C. Coyle, Perkins, Coie, Stone, Olsen & Williams, Seattle, Wash., were on brief, for defendant, appellee.

Before COFFIN, Circuit Judge, GIBSON, Senior Circuit Judge, and BREYER, Circuit Judge.


BREYER, Circuit Judge.

The appellants in this case are relatives of twenty-two Pakistani citizens who were killed when their Pakistanian International Airline flight, en route from Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, to Karachi, Pakistan, crashed near Jeddah. Appellants brought suit in Massachusetts against Boeing, the Washington-based maker of the airplane. The district court accepted a carefully detailed recommendation from the magistrate to dismiss the suit, on grounds of

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