Farnsworth v. Steiner

OPINION

Before RABINOWITZ, C. J., and CON-NOR, BOOCHEVER and BURKE, JJ. RABINOWITZ, Chief Justice.

This action arose out of an airplane accident. George Farnsworth and Michael Steiner had been on a hunting trip and had spent the day searching for game from the air, landing and taking off several times. They approached the McGrath airport around 8:30 p. m., the airplane made a banking turn in preparation for landing and then suddenly plunged, nose down, to the ground. The altitude at which this abrupt change in attitude occurred is the subject of some dispute, and witnesses’ estimates ranged…