The unthinkable has happened again. A small plane has crashed into a home situated near an airport. However, unlike an incident in Chicago a few weeks ago, in which the pilot was killed but the elderly residents of the home he struck escaped injury, the December 8 crash of a plane into three homes near…
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Prior to 1979 there were no liability insurance requirements on light airplanes under the Virginia Code. In addition, the Virginia federal courts ruled that the Federal Aviation Act provided no basis to impose vicarious liability on the owner of an aircraft for the negligence of someone who was a bailee. *vicarious liability assigns liability for…
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