Abrisch v. United States

FINDINGS OF FACT AND CONCLUSIONS OF LAW

CORRIGAN, District Judge.

On the evening of December 12, 2001, flight N7701J, a Piper Cherokee single-engine aircraft, crashed about one mile from Runway 7 at Jacksonville International Airport (“JIA”), killing the pilot, Donald W. Weidner, and his three passengers, George Thomas Bowden, and Adrienne and James Abrisch. Their next of kin and/or estate representatives each filed suit against the United States of America under the Federal Tort Claims Act, 28 U.S.C. § 1346(b) and § 2671, claiming the Federal Aviation Administration (“FAA”), as an agent of the…