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The United States Legal System

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Introduction On January 18th, 2003 at 6:38 in the morning, a cirrus SR-22 aircraft crashed near the city of Hill City, Nebraska. As part of these unfortunate turn of events, both the pilot and owner of the aircraft subsequently died in the crash. It would be later, that the estate of the two individuals, would take to court the Cirrus Design Group, alleging that manufacturer had failed to either properly train, or instruct the pilot on the operation of said aircraft prior to selling it to him. Furthermore, it was alleged that Cirrus failed to give adequate instruction regarding the recovering of unusual attitudes in flight, ultimately leading to the deaths of the individuals on the aircraft that day when encountering weather …show more content…

However, in the case of Glorvigen V. cirrus Design Corp, the estate of the deceased argued that it was the inherent duty of the manufacturer to provide adequate safety training as a part of the requirement for duty to warn, prior to the execution of flight practices.

Analysis
As it stands currently in the United States, a manufacturer may be held liable for any harm their product causes due to defect, even without being in privity of contract with the buyer. Additionally, the stance on negligence in the United States has changed from being bases solely on the theories of negligence, breach of contract, or breach of warranty concurrent with national shift towards strict liability in tort. This case does well do demonstrate that we recognize the duty of either suppliers to manufacturers to give adequate instruction, but the question now arises whether or not it is the inherent duty to also train intended users in the safe operation of the product by the manufacturer or supplier. In the state of Minnesota where the mishap aircraft originated from, the duty to warn is applied in the following way; “The manufacturer has a duty to warn end users of a dangerous product if it is reasonably foreseeable that an injury could occur in its use” (Gary v. Badger Mining Corp, 2004). The entailment of this duty is seen as giving adequate instruction unto the safe use of said product, but ultimately leaves

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