United States Fifth Circuit

Plaintiff failed to prove that resistor-type fuel transmitters are per se unreasonably dangerous when installed on helicopters used for slinging, and common knowledge among helicopter pilots about the inadequacy of relying solely on a fuel guage defeats a failure to warn theory of product liability.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/13/2001
• Published 03/13/2001

Judges

• DeMOSS, Circuit Judge:, Before DUHÉ, EMILIO M. GARZA and DeMOSS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Michael D. Sydow (argued), Rick Allen Eckerson, Verner, Liipfert, Bernhard, McPherson & Hand, Houston, TX, for McLennan., Michael Vance Powell (argued), Locke, Liddell & Sapp, Dallas, TX, K. Ross Citti, Citti & Crinion, Houston, TX, Stephen C. Johnson, Brian C. Dalrymple, Lillick & Charles, San Francisco, CA, for American Eurocopter Corp., Inc.