Legal Opinion
Burroughs v. Precision Airmotive Corp.
California Court of Appeal
Decided February 25, 2000No. H018266PublishedCited by 35 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
BAMATTRE-MANOUKIAN, Acting P. J.
Plaintiffs suffered injuries in the crash of a light aircraft, allegedly due to a malfunction in the engine’s carburetor. Defendant is an aircraft parts manufacturer who did not manufacture or sell this particular model of carburetor but acquired the product line from a predecessor who had acquired it from the original manufacturer. The carburetor was manufactured and sold in 1968, over 25 years prior to the accident. A recent federal statute of repose (The General Aviation Revitalization Act of 1994 (GARA), Pub.L. No. 103-298, 108 Stat. 1552, 49 U.S.C.…
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