Legal Opinion
Perez v. Lockheed Corp.
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided April 29, 1996No. 95-50091PublishedCited by 78 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GOODWIN, Circuit Judge:
Plaintiffs, bringing product liability claims arising out of a fatal crash of an Air Force C-5A in Germany, appeal the summary judgment in favor of defendants, Lockheed and General Electric. We affirm.
I. BACKGROUND
The crash occurred approximately 17 seconds after takeoff from Ramstein Air Base in *572Germany on August 29, 1990. Thirteen of the seventeen servicemen aboard the aircraft were killed. Plaintiffs sued on theories of manufacturer’s liability based upon Georgia state law failure to warn, breach of warranty and gross negligence.
A. The Crash Aircraft
The C-5A was…
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