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ZANTOP INTERNATIONAL AIRLINES, INC. v. EASTERN AIRLINES

Docket Nos. 116838, 116839, 116840, 123537, 123940, 129496, 129497.

200 Mich. App. 344 (1993)

503 N.W.2d 915

ZANTOP INTERNATIONAL AIRLINES, INC v. EASTERN AIRLINES ZANTOP INTERNATIONAL AIRLINES, INC. v. LOCKHEED AIRCRAFT CORPORATION

Michigan Court of Appeals.

Decided June 22, 1993, at 9:45 A.M.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Barris, Sott, Denn & Driker (by Eugene Driker, Andrew M. Zack, and Daniel J. LaCombe), for Zantop International Airlines, Inc., on appeal.

Kohl, Secrest, Wardle, Lynch, Clark & Hampton, P.C. (by Michael L. Updike), for Eastern Airlines, Inc.

Vandeveer Garzia (by Robert D. Brignall), for Bendix/Allied Corporation.

Kohl, Secrest, Wardle, Lynch, Clark & Hampton, P.C. (by Janet G. Callahan), for Lockheed Aircraft Corporation.

Before: GRIBBS, P.J., and HOLBROOK, JR., and NEFF, JJ.

PER CURIAM.

These appeals involve a fatal airplane crash. In 1977, Zantop International Airlines, Inc., purchased four used airplanes from Eastern Airlines. On May 30, 1984, one of the planes, a Lockheed Electra cargo plane, broke up in midair over Pennsylvania. Three Zantop employees (Charles R. Embry, John J. Bolton, and John B. Figarra) and one passenger (Bruce G. Whitesell) were killed.

Zantop argued that...

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