Whittemore v. Lockheed Aircraft Corp.

BISHOP, J. pro tem.

At 1:40 p. m. on the sixteenth day of May, 1938, an airplane, which had just been completed by the defendant, Lockheed Aircraft Corporation, tested and found wanting in no detail, took off from the Union Air Terminal at Burbank on a flight to Las Vegas, Nevada, where it was to be delivered to the Northwest Air Lines, Inc. In the seats provided for the pilot and co-pilot in this dual control ship, sat Fred W. Whittemore, a licensed pilot with more than ten thousand hours of flying experience and the operations manager of the plane’s purchaser, and Sid Willey, one of the…