Whittle v. United States

MEMORANDUM OPINION

VARNER, District Judge.

Plaintiffs sue the government for wrongful deaths of their respective in-testates who were killed in a helicopter crash. Plaintiffs’ intestates were passengers on a military aircraft piloted by one Goss, an Army Reserve pilot who had no authority to take aboard civilian passengers, at the time of the accident resulting in the death of all three. A log entry was introduced in evidence by Plaintiffs indicating that Goss had rented a helicopter and that the rentals had been charged to the United States for reserve pilot training. Goss was a reserve pilot…