Insurer sues Kansas skydiving operator over fatal propeller incident
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US Specialty Insurance Company filed a complaint on October 9, 2026 in the US District Court for the District of Kansas naming Myrtle Aviation, Crosswinds Aviation, the decedent's estate administrator, her father and Harco National Insurance Company. The complaint relates to a woman who died on October 26, 2024 after stepping into the arc of a spinning propeller on a 1977 Cessna 182Q at Cook Airfield in Sedgwick County, Kansas.
Myrtle Aviation had purchased an airport premises liability policy from USSIC with $1 million per‑person and $1 million per‑occurrence limits, but the policy contains no aircraft liability coverage and excludes bodily injury arising from ownership, maintenance, use or entrustment of any aircraft. USSIC argues the death arose from the operation of an aircraft, not from a condition of the premises.