ESTATE OF BECKER v. FORWARD TECH. INDUS.

No. 72416-9-I.

365 P.3d 1273 (2015)

192 Wn. App. 65

ESTATE OF Virgil Victor BECKER, Jr., by its Personal Representative, Jennifer L. White, Appellant, v. FORWARD TECHNOLOGY INDUSTRIES, INC., Respondent.

Court of Appeals of Washington, Division 1.

December 28, 2015.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Francis Hedrick , James T. Anderson III , Aviation Law Group PS, Seattle, WA, for Appellant.

Melissa O'loughlin White , Cozen O'Connor , Catherine Wright Smith , Howard Mark Goodfriend , Smith Goodfriend PS, Seattle, WA, for Defendant.

Francis Stanley Floyd , Douglas Kenneth Weigel , John Armen Safarli , Floyd Pflueger & Ringer PS, Seattle, WA, for Respondent.


¶ 1 The scope of implied field preemption in aviation law is evolving and elusive. But under recent Ninth Circuit case law, the key consideration is whether the area at issue is pervasively regulated.

¶ 2 This action arises from a fatal airplane crash linked to a defective carburetor float. The primary question...

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