WENCHE SIEMER v. LEARJET ACQUISITION CORP.

No. 91-4745.

966 F.2d 179 (1992)

WENCHE SIEMER, etc., et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. The LEARJET ACQUISITION CORP., et al., Defendants-Appellees. Mayade Bahri HELWANI, etc., et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. The LEARJET ACQUISITION CORP., et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied August 20, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Clinard J. Hanby and Susan A. Allinger, Essmyer & Hanby, Houston, Tex., for Siemer, et al.

Gerald L. Bracht, Mayor, Day & Caldwell, Houston, Tex., Walter J. Crawford, Jr., Wells, Peyton, Beard, Greenberg, Hunt, Crawford, Beaumont, Tex., and Hugh C. Griffin, and David J. Adams, Lord, Bissell & Brook, Chicago, Ill., for Learjet Corp.

Before HIGGINBOTHAM and DUHÉ, Circuit Judges, and HUNTER, District Judge.


EDWIN F. HUNTER, Jr., District Judge:

Plaintiffs are the survivors of the co-pilot (Michael M. Grandclement) and of two of the passengers (Peter I. Siemer and Aladdine H. Bahri2) on board Learjet N-711AF, which crashed on August 11, 1979 while en route from Athens, Greece to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The aircraft disappeared while traversing Egyptian airspace. The wreckage of the aircraft was discovered nearly eight (8) years later in the...

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