FOUR CORNERS HELICOPTERS, INC. v. TURBOMECA S.A.

Civ. A. No. 87-K-174.

677 F.Supp. 1096 (1988)

FOUR CORNERS HELICOPTERS, INC., a Colorado corporation, Plaintiff, v. TURBOMECA S.A., a French corporation; Societe Nationale Industrielle Aerospatiale, a French corporation; Aerospatiale Helicopter Corporation, a Delaware corporation, Aviall, Inc., a Delaware corporation and Roberts Aircraft, Inc., an Arizona corporation, Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Colorado.

January 20, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

L. Richard Musat, Chris A. Mattison, Hall & Evans, Denver, Colo., Douglas E. Bragg, Jane A. Tidball, Bragg & Dubofsky, Denver, Colo., for plaintiff.

Gene M. Hoffman, David E. Boyd, Hoffman & Boyd, Denver, Colo., Lillick, McHose & Charles, San Francisco, Cal., William L. Robinson, for SNIAS.

Frank D. O'Loughlin, Joseph E. Kovarik, Rothgerber, Appel, Powers & Johnson, Denver, Colo., M. Eugene Wooley, Kein & Wooley, Los Angeles, Cal., for Aviall, Inc.

Thomas J. Byrne, Michael L. Poindexter, Byrne, Kiely & White, Denver, Colo., for Roberts Aircraft, Inc.

Mary A. Wells, Weller, Friedrich, Ward & Andrew, Denver, Colo., for Turbomeca S.A.


MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

KANE, District Judge.

I THE BACKGROUND

At approximately 9:30 a.m. on September 14, 1985 a helicopter crashed near Craig, Colorado. The pilot was killed. The helicopter was destroyed. It was a model known as the Aerospatiale S.A. 315B "Lama," civil registration number N3836E. Its frame serial number was 2571. It was powered by an Artouste III B turbine engine. The engine bore a manufacturer's serial number 1064.

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