DeRienzo v. Morristown Airport Corp.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Wacheneeld, J.

The plaintiff was a student in the defendant’s flight instruction school and crashed while taking off on a solo practice flight in an airplane owned by the defendant. Plaintiff brought suit to recover damages for the personal injuries he had sustained.

His case proceeded upon the theory that the crash had occurred because the "stick” in the rear seat of the plane, a dual trainer, had been tied back with a safety belt. lie charged the defendant with negligence in: (1) failing to determine that the assigned aircraft was not reasonably safe…