Kendall v. United Air Lines, Inc. Sebo v. United Air Lines, Inc.

SWAN, Chief Judge.

These consolidated appeals involve two actions, tried together, that grew out of the crash of a commercial airplane near Mt. Carmel, Pennsylvania on June 17, 1948. In each case the plaintiff is the widow and executrix of a passenger in the airplane who lost his life in the crash, and the defendants are the operator of the plane and the manufacturer from whom the operator had purchased it. In each action the plaintiff asserted a claim under the Pennsylvania wrongful death statute, sections 1601— 1604 of Title 12, Purdon’s Statutes, and also a claim, in the right of her…