Legal Opinion
Campos Viuda De Courtois v. United States
District Court, D. Puerto Rico
Decided October 7, 1991No. Civ. 87-00868 GGPublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FINDINGS OF FACT AND CONCLUSIONS OF LAW
GIERBOLINI, Chief Judge.
On July 22, 1986, a twin-engine Douglas DC-3 registered as N27PR crashed in the San José lagoon less than one mile away from the runway of San Juan International Airport. The widow and children of the deceased pilot and the co-pilot, his wife, and their conjugal partnership brought this suit against the United States of America pursuant to the Federal Tort Claims Act (“FTCA”), 28 U.S.C. §§ 1346(b), 2671 et seq., claiming that the cause of the tragic crash was the negligence of the Federal Aviation Administration’s local air…
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