Legal Opinion
Glorvigen v. Cirrus Design Corp.
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided September 16, 2009No. 08-2680PublishedCited by 64 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EBEL, Circuit Judge.
On January 18, 2003, at 6:38 a.m., a Cirrus SR-22 aircraft with identification number N9523P crashed near Hill City, Minnesota. The pilot and owner of the aircraft, Gary Prokop, and his passenger, James Kosak, were both killed in the crash. Their trustees, Thomas Gartland and Rick Glorvigen, appointed under the Minnesota wrongful-death statute, brought claims against Cirrus, the airplane manufacturer, alleging, among other things, that Cirrus had improperly designed the airplane and had failed to instruct Mr. Prokop properly in its operation. Cirrus then brought a…
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