Margaret Lowry, Appellant/cross-Appellee v. McDonnell Douglas Corporation, Appellee/cross-Appellant

BOWMAN, Circuit Judge.

This ease is before us for the second time, on appeal from the order of the District Court granting summary judgment to McDonnell Douglas Corporation (MDC) on the wrongful death claim of plaintiff Margret Lowry. 1 Lowry alleges that MDC defectively designed and failed to warn of defects in a United States Air Force F-15 aircraft that crashed at Spangdahlem Air Base in Germany on May 30, 1995, killing Major Donald Lowry, plaintiffs decedent. The District Court concluded that MDC was shielded from liability by the federal military contractor defense set forth in Boyle v.…