Legal Opinion
Mills v. Beech Aircraft Corp.
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided October 26, 1989No. 88-4712PublishedCited by 247 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GEE, Circuit Judge:
Plaintiffs appeal from the judgment, entered on a jury verdict, for defendant Beech Aircraft Corporation in a wrongful death action arising out of the crash of a private airplane. We affirm.
In July 1983, Alva Ray Mills and Lonnie Bearry took off from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in a 1961 Model 35 Beech Bonanza, registered as N1317Z, and flew to an airport in McComb, Mississippi, where they performed practice instrument approaches. At mid-morning, the pilot of N1317Z informed the McComb Flight Service Station that they were returning to Baton Rouge. Between five and ten minutes…
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