Brown v. Estate of Jonz

OPINION

Before BOOCHEVER, C. J., BURKE, Justice, and KALAMARIDES, Judge. BURKE, Justice.

In 1972 an airplane flown by Don E. Jonz disappeared on a flight from Anchorage to Juneau. The body of Russel L. Brown, a passenger on the plane, was never found, and he was declared dead at a presumptive death hearing.

Onita Brown, Russel Brown’s widow, filed a wrongful death action against the estate of Jonz on behalf of herself; Marie *533Nicole Brown, her child by Russel Brown; and three of the children from Mrs. Brown’s first marriage, hereinafter the McDaniel children, who lived with Mr. and Mrs. Brown and…