Kiecker v. Pacific Indemnity Co.

Defendant insurance, company appeals from an adverse judgment determining it to be liable for damages sustained to an airplane under a hull insurance policy. A $3,466.50 judgment was entered for plaintiffs.

This litigation had its genesis in a small plug which was used prior to each flight to drain sediment and condensation from the fuel tanks of a 1947 Navion airplane. On July 12, 1968, one Pieter Blood, a pilot and mechanic who had been working on the airplane, desired to take it up for a test flight. Blood had done some work on the retractable landing gear which had not been working…