Local News in Brief : No Jury in Air-Crash Suits
All lawsuits filed so far against Aeromexico in the mid-air collision over Cerritos that killed 82 people last year must be heard by a judge, rather than a jury, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.
U. S. District Judge David Kenyon said a provision in the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976 requiring that claims against a foreign state be heard by a judge applies to Aeromexico because more than half of the airline’s stock is owned by the Mexican government.
A private airplane slammed into the tail of an Aeromexico DC-9 on Aug. 31, 1986, killing 82 people aboard both aircraft and in the residential neighborhood where the airliner crashed.
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