Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit March 15, 1985, Nos. 83-3296, 83-3328 (Tallentire v. Offshore Logistics, Inc.)

lead-opinion

W. EUGENE DAVIS, Circuit Judge:

These consolidated cases stem from the death of two offshore workers in the crash of a helicopter some thirty miles off the Louisiana coast. The helicopter was owned and operated by Air Logistics, a division of Offshore Logistics, Inc., and was manufactured by Bell Helicopter, a division of Tex-tron, Inc.