IN RE CRASH OFF LONG ISLAND, NY, ON JULY 17, 1996.

No. 96 Civil 7986 (RWS). No. MDL 1161(RWS).

965 F.Supp. 5 (1997)

In Re AIR CRASH OFF LONG ISLAND, NEW YORK, ON JULY 17, 1996.

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

May 7, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kreindler & Kreindler, New York City (Lee S. Kreindler, Steven R. Pounian, James P. Kreindler, of counsel); Speiser, Krause, Madole, Nolan & Granito, New York City (Kenneth P. Nolan, Frank H. Granito, Jr., Frank H. Granito, III, of counsel); Waite, Schneider, Bayless & Chesley, Cincinnati, OH, (Jerome L. Skinner, of counsel); Baumeister & Samuels, New York City, (Michel F. Baumeister, of counsel), Donald J. Nolan, Chicago, IL, Schaden, Katzman & Lampert, Broomfield, CO, (Richard Schaden, of counsel), for Plaintiffs.

Haight, Gardner, Poor & Havens, New York City (Randal R. Craft, Jr., of counsel), for Trans World Airlines, Inc.

Davis, Scott, Weber & Edwards, New York City (George F. Hritz, of counsel), Perkins Coie, Keith Gerrard, Steven S. Bell, Jay S. Brown, Seattle, WA, for The Boeing Company.

Dombroff & Gilmore, Washington, DC (Mark A. Dombroff, of counsel), for Hydroaire, Inc. & Crane Co.


SWEET, District Judge.

In this multidistrict litigation consolidating for pretrial purposes wrongful death actions arising from the July 17, 1996 crash of Trans World Airlines Flight 800 off Long Island, two versions of an initial pretrial order have been submitted, differing only with respect to the scope of the pretrial proceedings on damages issues. For the reasons set forth below, Pretrial Order Number 1, which has been signed today, will charge the Plaintiffs...

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