Legal Opinion
Collins v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided May 1, 2009No. 08-1334PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
In 2000, two small planes collided while approaching the Waukegan Regional Airport, which is near Lake Michigan north of Chicago, and crashed into a medical center. The planes’ occupants — the pilot and passenger of one, the student pilot of the other — were killed, and the medical center was damaged. When the collision occurred, one plane was approaching the airport, intending to land, and the other plane, the one piloted by the student pilot, was practicing takeoffs and landings and also intending to land. The airport’s control tower had no radar, so that in clearing…
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