Legal Opinion
Rudelson v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided August 23, 1979No. Nos. 77-3599, 78-2110, 77-3668 and 78-1519PublishedCited by 36 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TRASK, Circuit Judge:
On September 9, 1971, a dual-controlled Cessna airplane owned by Aviation Unlimited, Inc. and piloted by Jerrold Rudelson, a student aviator, and Thomas DuVal, a flight instructor, collided in mid-air with a Piper aircraft flown by Marvin Aardema. The collision occurred about a mile south of the Santa Monica, California airport control tower at approximately 1,000 feet above the airfield on the downwind leg of the traffic pattern for runway 21. All three men were killed.
The survivors of Rudelson and Aardema sued the United States under the Federal Tort Claims Act, 28…
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