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CHUNG v. TAROM, S.A.

No. 97 C 2946.

990 F.Supp. 581 (1998)

Daniel L. CHUNG, Personal Representative and Independent Administrator of the Estate of Therese C. Chung, Deceased, Plaintiff, v. TAROM, S.A.; Transporturi Aeriene Romane; Tarom Romanian Air Transport; Tarom Airlines; Airbus Industrie; Airbus Industrie of North America; Airbus Services Company, Inc.; Gie Airbus Industrie; Swissair Air Transport Co., Ltd.; Swissair Group; Swissair Airlines; Swissair Engineering And Maintenance; Delta Airlines, Inc.; United Technologies Corporation, d/b/a Pratt And Whitney; Pratt And Whitney Group/Commercial Engine Business; and Pratt and Whitney, Defendants.

United States District Court, N.D. Illinois, Eastern Division.

January 21, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard Francis Burke, Jr., Clifford Law Offices, P.C., Chicago, IL, Robert A. Clifford, Chicago, IL, for Daniel L. Chung, Personal Representative and Independent Administrator of Therese C. Chung, Plaintiff.

Michael A. Pope, Jeffrey C. Clark, McDermott, Will & Emery, Chicago, IL, for Tarom, S.A., Transporturi Aeriene Romane, Tarom Romanian Air Transport, Tarom Airlines, Swissair Group, Swissair Air Transport Co., Ltd., Defendants.

Larry S. Kaplan, Richard Alan Walker, Jeffrey Eric Margulis, Kaplan, Begy & von Ohlen, Chicago, IL, Jacques Soiret, Kirtland & Packard, LLP, Los Angeles, CA, for Airbus Industrie of North America, Airbus Services Company, Inc., Gie Airbus Industrie, Pratt and Whitney Group, Defendants.

Martin A. Kanofsky, Linda J. Schneider, Howard Scott Hirsch, Merlo, Kanofsky & Brinkmeier, Ltd., Chicago, IL, for Delta Airlines, Inc., Defendant.

Michael Gerard McQuillen, John Nicholas Julian, III, Adler, Murphy & McQuillen, Chicago, IL, for United Technologies Corporation, dba, Pratt and Whitney, Defendants.

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

GETTLEMAN, District Judge.

Plaintiff Daniel L. Chung brings the instant action against various entities. The action arises out of the crash of a Tarom Airlines airplane ("the airplane") on March 31, 1995, near Bucharest, Romania, which killed all of the passengers and crew aboard, including plaintiff's wife, Therese C. Chung. A motion to quash service of process filed by defendant Airbus Industrie GIE ("GIE") (incorrectly...

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