MILLS v. BEECH AIRCRAFT CORP., INC.

No. 88-4712. Summary Calendar.

886 F.2d 758 (1989)

Helen Nichols MILLS, Alice Mills Nolley, Mary Mills Corkern, Robyn Mills Olsan, Jody Hart Mills and Raymond Matthew Mills, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. BEECH AIRCRAFT CORPORATION, INC., Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

October 26, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph L. Lemoine, Jr., Lafayette, La., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Thomas C. Gerity, Robert A. Miller, Frank A. Wood, Jr., Jackson, Miss., for defendant-appellee.

Before GEE, DAVIS and JONES, Circuit Judges:


GEE, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiffs appeal from the judgment, entered on a jury verdict, for defendant Beech Aircraft Corporation in a wrongful death action arising out of the crash of a private airplane. We affirm.

In July 1983, Alva Ray Mills and Lonnie Bearry took off from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in a 1961 Model 35 Beech Bonanza, registered as N1317Z, and flew to an airport in McComb, Mississippi, where they performed practice instrument approaches. At mid-morning...

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