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BEECH AIRCRAFT CORP. v. HARVEY

No. 2513.

558 P.2d 879 (1976)

BEECH AIRCRAFT CORPORATION, Appellant, v. Lola F. HARVEY, as personal representative of the Estate of James W. Harvey, Deceased, and Germaine A. Chester, as personal representative of the Estate of Lorren R. Chester, Deceased, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

November 26, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

D.A. Burr and Ronald H. Bussey, Burr, Pease & Kurtz, Inc., Anchorage, and Landon Morris, associated with Burr, Pease & Kurtz, Anchorage, for appellant.

L. Ames Luce, Kelly & Luce, Theodore R. Dunn and David Shimek, Matthews, Dunn & Baily, and Michelle V. Minor, Anchorage, for appellees.

Before BOOCHEVER, Chief Justice, RABINOWITZ and CONNOR, Justices, DIMOND, Justice Pro Tem., and VAN HOOMISSEN, Superior Court Judge.

OPINION

CONNOR, Justice.

This products liability action concerns the death of two men in the crash of a light plane manufactured by appellant. The case was tried by jury before the superior court at Kodiak.

On March 16, 1967, James Harvey and his passenger, Lorren Chester, attempted to take off in an aircraft from Kodiak Municipal Airport. The aircraft crashed into a gravel pile and they died. Plaintiffs are the personal representatives of decedents...

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