Willie Sheeks Bandy v. United States

ORDER

Appellant appeals from judgment for the United States in her suit brought under the Federal Tort Claims Act, 28 U.S.C. § 2674. Appellant had sued for the wrongful death of her husband who was killed when the private plane he was piloting crashed while he was attempting to land near Jackson, Mississippi, allegedly because the air traffic control towers negligently failed to give him up-to-date information about the weather conditions, specifically about thunderstorms. The District Court, after a bench trial, found that while the controllers may have been negligent in failing to give this…