CHAMPLAIN ENTERPRISES, INC. v. U.S.

No. 94-CV-1356.

945 F.Supp. 468 (1996)

CHAMPLAIN ENTERPRISES, INC., d/b/a CommutAir, Plaintiff, v. UNITED STATES of America and Beech Aircraft Company, Defendants.

United States District Court, N.D. New York.

November 20, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kroll & Tract, New York City (William C. Brown, of counsel), for Plaintiff.

Roemer, Wallens & Mineaux, LLP, Albany, NY (Matthew J. Kelly, of counsel), for Defendant Beech Aircraft Corp.


MEMORANDUM-DECISION & ORDER

McAVOY, Chief Judge.

I. BACKGROUND

This case arises from the crash of CommutAir Flight 4821. On January 3, 1992, the aircraft was on approach to Adirondack Airport in Saranac Lake, New York. It struck a mountain approximately 4.3 miles short of the runway and was destroyed. Two persons died and two persons survived the crash. In a related case, Momen, et al. v. U.S., et al. (94-CV-654), one of the survivors...

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