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PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA, INC. v. SHEEHAN

Nos. S-4569, S-4597.

852 P.2d 1173 (1993)

PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA, INC., Appellant, v. Joseph W. SHEEHAN, Appellee. Joseph W. SHEEHAN, Cross-Appellant, v. UNITED TECHNOLOGIES, Pratt & Whitney, formerly known as United Aircraft of Canada, Ltd.; United Technologies, Pratt & Whitney Canada; Pratt & Whitney Aircraft of Canada, Ltd., a subsidiary of United Technologies; Pratt & Whitney Canada, Inc., a subsidiary of United Technologies; United Aircraft Corporation; Pratt & Whitney Aircraft; and Paul Kerstetter, Cross-Appellees.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

May 28, 1993.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jonathan M. Hoffman, Martin, Bischoff, Templeton, Langslet & Hoffman, Anchorage, for appellant, cross-appellee Pratt & Whitney Canada, Inc.

James A. Parrish, and Joseph W. Sheehan, Fairbanks, for appellee, cross-appellant Joseph W. Sheehan.

Before RABINOWITZ, C.J., and BURKE, MATTHEWS, COMPTON and MOORE, JJ.

OPINION

RABINOWITZ, Chief Justice.

This case arose from the engine failure and subsequent forced landing of an aircraft at Fairbanks International Airport. The aircraft, a Dehavilland Turbo Beaver, was owned and piloted by Joseph W. Sheehan. The aircraft's engine, manufactured and later overhauled by defendant Pratt & Whitney Canada, Inc. (PWC), experienced a catastrophic failure shortly after takeoff. This failure and the resulting forced landing caused...

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