Legal Opinion
King v. Cessna Aircraft Co.
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided October 24, 2007No. 06-10519, 06-10994PublishedCited by 123 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CARNES, Circuit Judge:
These cases arise out of a tragic accident that occurred one foggy morning in October of 2001 at the Linate airport in Milan, Italy. A private Cessna jet operated by Air Evex, a German charter company, made a wrong turn, taxiing toward an active runway. After air traffic controllers apparently failed to make the problem clear to the plane’s pilots, the Air Evex jet collided with a Scandinavian Air Systems jet that was just taking flight. One hundred and eighteen people died, including everyone on board both planes and four people on the ground. Another person was…
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