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Winninger v. United States
District Court, D. Delaware
Decided September 14, 1964No. Civ. A. No. 2207PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
STEEL, District Judge:
Plaintiffs, the widow and co-adminis"trators of the estate of decedent, William W. Miller, have sued the United States for damages for decedent’s death .and the destruction of an aircraft which he owned. Decedent was killed and his Piper Tri-Pacer was demolished on September 23, 1958, at approximately 2:00 P.M. when an inflight failure occurred to the Tri-Pacer while being operated by decedent at a point several miles north of the Dover, Delaware Air Force Base.
Plaintiffs contend that the failure of the Tri-Pacer was due to its encountering vortex turbulence generated by…
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3Cited by1 opinion
- Wenninger v. United StatesDistrict Court, D. Delaware · 1964