WOODWORTH v. GATES LEARJET CORP.

Docket No. 88202.

173 Mich. App. 480 (1988)

434 N.W.2d 167

WOODWORTH v. GATES LEARJET CORPORATION

Michigan Court of Appeals.

Decided December 6, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Schaden, Heldman & Lampert (by Victoria C. Heldman), for plaintiff.

Zamplas, Paskin, Nagi, Baxter, Johnson & Walker, P.C. (by David R. Baxter and Christine Kaczanowski), for Freedom International, Inc., and Jet Care Center.

Before: MacKENZIE, P.J., and KELLY and L.P. BORRELLO, JJ.


PER CURIAM.

Plaintiff appeals as of right from an order granting a directed verdict in favor of defendants Freedom International and Jet Care Center. We affirm in part and reverse in part.

This case arose out of an April 7, 1981, airplane accident in which a Model 23 Learjet collided with a bird. Plaintiff's decedent, the copilot, was killed when the bird, a common loon weighing between 3 1/2 and 11 pounds, came through the windshield of the airplane on takeoff...

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