Legal Opinion
Baird v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided June 29, 1981No. Nos. 79-1197, 79-1441PublishedCited by 32 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SEYMOUR, Circuit Judge.
This is a consolidated appeal after dismissal of a Federal Tort Claims suit under 28 U.S.C. §§ 1346(b), 2671-2680,1 against *438the United States for damages that resulted when a small aircraft crashed off the runway at the Paul Windle Airport in Kansas. The claimants are pilot Galen Baird, his employer Capitol Air Service, Inc., and its insurer Vanguard Insurance Co. (collectively “plaintiffs”). They claim that the Government published a misleading aeronautical chart that caused Baird to overestimate the length of a lighted runway on the evening of the crash. The district…
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