FILUS v. LOT POLISH AIRLINES

No. MDL 787. 87 CV 4252.

939 F.Supp. 199 (1996)

Danuta Imiolek FILUS, as Administratrix of the Estate of Kazimerz Jan Filus, Deceased, Plaintiff, and Danuta Imiolek Filus, as Administratrix of the Estate of Joanna Marianna Filus, Deceased, Plaintiff, v. LOT POLISH AIRLINES, a/k/a Polskie Linie Lotnicze; and Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, by its Ministry of Civil Aviation, Ilyushin Design Bureau, and Soloviev Design Bureau, Defendants. And All Related Actions.

United States District Court, E.D. New York.

October 2, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kreindler & Kreindler, New York City (Lori B. Lasson, Milton G. Sincoff, of counsel), for plaintiff.

Wolf, Popper, Ross, Wolf & Jones, New York City (Michael P. Fuchs, of counsel), for defendant Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

Condon & Forsyth New York City (John F. Schutty, of counsel), for defendant LOT Polish Airlines.


MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

NICKERSON, District Judge:

Plaintiff brought this action as the administratrix of the estates of her husband and daughter, passengers killed in a 1987 crash of an Ilyushin-62M jet airplane near Warsaw, Poland. The complaint alleges that the jet was operated by defendant LOT Polish Airlines (LOT) and was manufactured and sold to LOT by defendant Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, by its Ministry of Civil Aviation (the Ministry), Ilyushin...

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