Legal Opinion
Debra Matei, as Special Administrator of the Estate of Dennis Matei, Deceased, Cross-Appellee v. Cessna Aircraft Company, and Robert Hansel
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided September 15, 1994No. 93-3172, 93-3373PublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GRANT, District Judge.
Dennis Matei, a commercial pilot, died in a plane crash on January 29, 1987. The alleged proximate cause of the crash and his death was a failure of the instrument control fighting system. Mrs. Matei, as special administrator of her husband’s estate, brought suit against the manufacturer of the aircraft, Cessna Aircraft Company, and its owner, Robert Hansel. The district court granted summary judgment for Hansel finding that he was not fiable under Illinois’ common law of bailment and 49 U.S.C. App. § 1404 because he had leased the aircraft to Prompt Air, Inc., the…
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