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BOTTAZZI v. PETROLEUM HELICOPTERS, INC.

No. 80-3454.

664 F.2d 49 (1981)

Victor J. BOTTAZZI, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. PETROLEUM HELICOPTERS, INC., et al., Defendants-Appellees, v. DETROIT DIESEL ALLISON, DIVISION OF GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit. Unit A

December 14, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

A. R. Christovich, Jr., New Orleans, La., for defendant-appellant.

Vance E. Ellefson, New Orleans, La., for Petroleum Helicopters, Inc.

Richard S. Vale, Metairie, La., for Employers Ins.

Bob F. Wright, Anthony D. Moroux, Lafayette, La., for Bottazzi.

Before MARKEY, Chief Judge, and GEE and POLITZ, Circuit Judges.

GEE, Circuit Judge:

In 1977, plaintiff Victor Bottazzi was a technician who worked on offshore oil platforms. His access to these was usually by helicopter, though sometimes by crew boat. Both in June and in October of that year he was, while a passenger on such helicopters, involved in accidents, each time being rescued from the water. The details of these incidents are unnecessary to relate beyond observing that each put him in genuine peril and aroused in him a...

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