Legal Opinion
Whyham v. Piper Aircraft Corp.
District Court, M.D. Pennsylvania
Decided October 15, 1982No. Civ. A. No. 81-1392PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM
HERMAN, District Judge.
This action involves the crash of a Piper Aztec airplane off the coast of Scotland on October 24, 1978. The airplane was designed and manufactured by Defendant, Piper Aircraft Corporation [hereinafter Piper], a Pennsylvania corporation, on September 28, 1971. The aircraft was certified on October 7, 1971, and, at approximately the same time, the plane was licensed to Aviation Services International, Inc. to be delivered overseas.
In November 1971, Aviation Services International, Inc. sold the plane to a buyer in Lisbon, Portugal. Apparently Piper had no…
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