Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit January 19, 1960, No. 64, Docket 25689 (Cook v. United States)

lead-opinion

SWAN, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal by the executors of the estate of Helen E. Hokinson, who lost her life on November 1, 1949 when an Eastern Airlines plane in which she was a passenger was struck by a Bolivian military type plane, while both were attempting to land at the Washington National Airport in Virginia.