R. J. ENSTROM CORPORATION v. INTERCEPTOR CORPORATION

No. 74-1561.

520 F.2d 1217 (1975)

R. J. ENSTROM CORPORATION, Appellant, v. INTERCEPTOR CORPORATION and United States of America, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

Decided August 14, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James Thomas Lenhart, Washington, D. C. (Phillip D. Bostwick, and Shaw, Pittman, Potts & Trowbridge, Washington, D. C., and Ben L. Burdick, Clyde A. Muchmore, Crowe, Dunlevy, Thweatt, Swinford, Johnson & Burdick, Oklahoma City, Okl., with him on the brief), for appellant.

Mark A. Dombroff, Atty., Dept. of Justice (Carla A. Hills, Asst. Atty. Gen., William R. Burkett, U. S. Atty., John G. Laughlin, Atty., Dept. of Justice, and Donald E. Jose and Robert W. Katz, Attys., Dept. of Justice, of counsel, with him on the brief), for appellee, United States of America.

Before LEWIS, Chief Judge, and SETH and McWILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.


SETH, Circuit Judge.

This litigation arises out of an aviation accident which resulted in the total loss of an "Interceptor 400" aircraft, owned by plaintiff, R. J. Enstrom Corporation. The airplane was manufactured by Interceptor Corporation, a defendant, and given a "type certificate" by the Federal Aviation Administration. The plane was "ditched" in Santa Monica Bay in California following a "flame out" of its turboprop...

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