§ 1-4-3. Liability of owner for injuries caused by aircraft. Whenever any aircraft is used, operated, or caused to be operated in this state and an action is begun to recover damages for injuries arising to the person or to the property or for the death of a person, arising out of an accident or collision in which that aircraft was involved, or arising out of an accident caused by the dropping or falling of any object from that aircraft, evidence that at the time of the accident or collision it was registered in the name of the defendant as owner is prima facie evidence that it was then being operated by and under the control of a person for whose conduct the defendant was wholly responsible, and absence of that responsibility is an affirmative defense to be set up in the answer and proved by the defendant.
History of Section. (P.L. 1940, ch. 851, § 3; G.L. 1956, § 1-4-3; P.L. 2000, ch. 371, § 3.)
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