Cirrus wins appeal in 2003 accident

The Minnesota Court of Appeals has overturned a decision by a lower court jury against Cirrus Aircraft in the case of a pilot and his passenger who died in marginal VFR weather in January 2003, according to a report at AOPA.org. AOPA’s story quotes Bill King, Cirrus Aircraft vice president of business administration: “This was a tragic airplane accident. We were not surprised by the verdict of the appellate court. We had expected that the verdict would be overturned. The appellate court determined that as a matter of law, the decision of the jury could not stand. This case should not have gone this far.”