Torts/Personal Injury,
Civil Litigation
Sep. 8, 2023
Remembering Korean Air Lines Flight 007 forty years later
The tragic downing of Flight 007 came at the height of the Cold War. For many years, courts in the United States, including here in California, oversaw the litigation filed by surviving family members. These courts were responsible for helping the victims achieve some semblance of justice.
Michael E. Rubinstein
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Loyola Law School; Los Angeles CA
Michael is a Los Angeles-based personal injury and accident attorney.
Forty years ago, on Sept. 1, 1983, tragedy unfolded in the skies over the former Soviet Union. Korean Air Flight 007, which was en route from Anchorage, Alaska to Seoul, South Korea, was shot down by a Soviet jet and crashed into the Sea of Japan. Congressman Larry McDonald, an active member of the U.S. House of Representatives, was aboard the plane. All 269 souls on board were killed, and their bodies were never recovered. The incident and the subsequent search for ...
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