WIDMYER v. SOUTHEAST SKYWAYS, INC.

No. 3231.

584 P.2d 1 (1978)

Carmelita WIDMYER, personal representative of the Estates of Peggy Rae Welch, Deceased, and Joshua John Welch, Deceased, and A. Dermott O'Toole, personal representative of the Estate of Dermott R. O'Toole, Deceased, Appellants, v. SOUTHEAST SKYWAYS, INC., and James Norvell, personal representative of the Estate of Richard James Norvell, a pilot of a DeHavilland Beaver # N9770Z, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

August 25, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

A. Lee Petersen, Fraties & Petersen, Anchorage, for appellants.

Burton C. Biss, Biss & Holmes, Wasilla, and Allan A. Engstrom, Juneau, for appellees.

Before BOOCHEVER, Chief Justice, RABINOWITZ, CONNOR, BURKE and MATTHEWS, Justices.


OPINION

BOOCHEVER, Chief Justice.

On November 15, 1974, a DeHavilland Beaver airplane, owned by Southeast Skyways, Inc., and piloted by Richard Norvell, crashed in the waters of False Bay, Chichagof Island, Alaska. The pilot and three passengers, Peggy Rae Welch, Joshua John Welch and Dermott R. O'Toole,1 were killed in the crash. Appellants, Carmelita Widmyer and A. Dermott O'Toole, personal...

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