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FIRST OF AMERICA BANK-CENT. v. U.S.

No. G83-949.

639 F.Supp. 446 (1986)

FIRST OF AMERICA BANK-CENTRAL, formerly American Bank & Trust Company, Personal Representative of the Estates of William F. Cole and Wanda J. Cole, Deceased, Plaintiff, v. UNITED STATES of America, and Delta Air Lines, Inc., a Delaware Corporation, Jointly and Severally, Defendants.

United States District Court, W.D. Michigan, S.D.

June 24, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James F. Graves, Willingham, Coté, Hanslovsky, Griffith & Foresman, East Lansing, Mich., for plaintiff.

C. Barry Wetherington, Plunkett, Cooney, Rutt, Watters, Stanczyk & Pedersen, Detroit, Mich., for Delta Air Lines.

J. Paul McGranth, Asst. Atty. Gen., John A. Smietanka, U.S. Atty., Edith Landman, Asst. U.S. Atty., Richard R. Stone, Sr., U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., for U.S. of America.

OPINION

HILLMAN, Chief Judge.

This litigation stems from a September 19, 1981 crash of a single engine aircraft at Dallas/Fort Worth Regional Airport ("DFW"), which killed the pilot, William F. Cole, and his wife and passenger, Wanda J. Cole. The crash allegedly occurred when the aircraft encountered turbulent air, also known as wake turbulence or wingtip vortices, generated by a Delta Airlines 727 jet making a final approach to runway 17R at DFW. Plaintiff...

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