In re AIR DISASTER AT RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, GERMANY, on 8/29/90, Plaintiff.
Olga PEREZ, etc., et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants,
v.
LOCKHEED CORP. and General Electric Company, Defendants-Appellees.
United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
April 29, 1996.
April 29, 1996.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Ralph Oliver Anderson, Mark W. Hicks, Gary Allen Magnarini, Hicks, Anderson and Blum, Miami, FL, for all plaintiffs-appellants and intervenors plaintiffs-appellants.
James Teague Crouse, Speiser, Krause and Madole, San Antonio, TX, for all plaintiffs-appellants.
Robert L. Parks, William L. Petros, Anderson, Moss, Parks and Sherouse, Miami, FL, for all Perez parties.
Charles F. Krause, Speiser, Krause & Madole, New Orleans, TX, for Ofelia Wilson, plaintiff-appellant.
Ronald D. Krist, Krist, Gunn, Weller, Neumann & Morrison, Houston, TX, for Barbara J. Knutson, intervenor plaintiff-appellant.
James D. Guess, Groce, Locke & Hebdon, San Antonio, TX, for Lockheed Corporation.
Ron A. Sprague, Neil Howard Stone, Thomas Walter Gendry, Robert Mathy Lair, Gendry and Sprague, San Antonio, TX, for all defendants-intervenors defendants-appellees.
D'Anne Keller Haydel, Edward John O'Neill, Jr., Kelly J. Kirkland, Clements, O'Neill, Pierce & Nickens, Houston, TX, Paul K. Holloway, Porter and Hedges, Houston, TX, Jerry L. Mitchell, Kasowitz, Hoff, Benson and Torres, Houston, TX, Francis A. Anania, Miami, FL, for General Elec. Co.
Before POLITZ, Chief Judge, and GOODWIN and DUHÉ, Circuit Judges.
United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.
GOODWIN, Circuit Judge:
Plaintiffs, bringing product liability claims arising out of a fatal crash of an Air Force C-5A in Germany, appeal the summary judgment in favor of defendants, Lockheed and General Electric. We affirm.
I. BACKGROUND
The crash occurred approximately 17 seconds after takeoff from Ramstein Air Base in Germany on August 29, 1990. Thirteen of the seventeen servicemen aboard the aircraft...
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