Srock Ex Rel. Estate of Srock v. United States

FINDINGS OF FACT AND CONCLUSIONS OF LAW PURSUANT TO RULE 52(a)

CLELAND, District Judge.

I. INTRODUCTION

In this wrongful death case, filed pursuant to the Federal Tort Claims Act (“FTCA”), 1 Plaintiff claims that an allegedly deficient weather briefing by the FAA was the cause, or at least a cause, of the crash of a sleek, experimental “hotrod” of an airplane in which Plaintiffs decedent, passenger James Srock, was killed. In this opinion, the court finds that the relatively inexperienced owner/pilot of that aircraft chose to fly directly toward and into readily-visible, thick clouds that he…