Goldie B. Prashker v. United States Guarantee Company Et Al‪.‬

[1 N.Y.2d 584 Page 587] On October 5, 1953 an airplane crash occurred near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It was a private plane belonging to Choice
Embroidery & Laces, Inc., being piloted by Nathan Prashker, with Harold Weissman as passenger. They had taken off from
Allegheny County Airport to fly to Cleveland, Ohio. Both were killed. The pilot held a VFR license (entitling him to pilot
an aircraft under visual flying rules), but he was not licensed to operate under instrument flight conditions. Blinded by
clouds, the pilot doubled back upon his course and crashed to the south of Allegheny County Airport, from which he had taken
off, in what appears to have been an unsuccessful endeavor to land there.