Legal Opinion
Smith v. Teledyne Continental Motors, Inc.
District Court, D. South Carolina
Decided January 3, 2012No. Civil Action No. 9:10cv2152, 9:10cv2546PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER
BERTELSMAN, Senior District Judge:1
INTRODUCTION
On March 15, 2010, at about 6:00 p.m., Robert Gary Jones, vacationing from his home in Georgia, was jogging on the beach at Hilton Head, South Carolina, when he was struck and killed by an airplane.
The plane, operated by Edward I. Smith, was a light single-engine aircraft Smith had made from a kit. As he was flying the plane up the Atlantic coast about ten miles offshore, the propeller fell off the plane and into the sea.
Smith attempted to make the Hilton Head airport, but came up short, crash landing on the beach and fatally…
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