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LANG v. BEECH AIRCRAFT CORP.

No. 8352.

663 P.2d 640 (1983)

Susie E. LANG, individually and as Executrix of the Estates of Franklin R. Lang, Deceased, and Willard J. Lang, deceased; Franklin J. Lang, a minor, by Susie E. Lang, his Guardian Prochein Ami; Steven Lang; and Kathleen Lang Smith, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. BEECH AIRCRAFT CORPORATION, Defendant-Appellee, and Beechcraft West, Inc.; Continental Engines; State of Hawaii, Department of Airports; THC Financial Corp., a Hawaii corporation; Francis Crawford, Jr., C.A. McCluney Company, dba James F. Pierce Flight School; Eon Corporation, a California corporation; Aeromarine, Inc., a Hawaii corporation; 1st Doe through 50th Doe, inclusive; 1st Company through 50th Company, inclusive; 1st Doe Corporation through 50th Doe Corporation, inclusive; 1st Doe Non-Profit Corporation through 50th Doe Non-Profit Corporation, inclusive and 1st Doe Governmental Entities through 50th Doe Governmental Entities, inclusive, Defendants.

Intermediate Court of Appeals of Hawaii.

May 19, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gerald C. Sterns, San Francisco, Cal. (with him on the briefs Edmund L. Lee, Jr., Robert L. Ingram, Honolulu, and Craig Dykman, San Rafael, Cal.), for plaintiffs-appellants.

Richard E. Stifel, Honolulu (with him on the briefs Lawrence L. Tong, Goodsill, Anderson & Quinn, Honolulu), for defendant-appellee.

Before BURNS, C.J., and HEEN and TANAKA, JJ.

BURNS, Chief Judge.

In this wrongful death action based on the alternative theories of negligence, products liability, and breach of warranty, plaintiffs appeal the verdict in favor of defendant Beech Aircraft Corporation (Beech) which the lower court directed at the close of plaintiffs' evidence. We affirm.

Mr. Lang, a California resident, owned and regularly piloted a Beechcraft Bonanza A36. The A36 had only two fuel tanks, a left and a right. It also had...

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