In any aviation product liability claim, any duty on the part of the aviation product seller to warn or protect against a danger or hazard which could or did arise in the use or misuse of such aviation product and any duty to have properly instructed in the use of such aviation product, does not extend:

(1) To any warning protecting against or instructing with regard to those safeguards, precautions, and actions which a reasonable user or consumer of the aviation product, with the training, experience, education, and any special knowledge the user or consumer did, should, or was required to possess, could and should have taken for such user or consumer or others, under all the facts and circumstances;

Terms Used In South Dakota Codified Laws 21-63-10

  • Aviation product liability claim: includes any claim or action brought for harm caused by the manufacture, production, making, construction, fabrication, design, formula, preparation, assembly, installation, testing, warnings, instructions, marketing, packaging, storage, or labeling of the relevant aviation product. See South Dakota Codified Laws 21-63-1

(2) To any situation where the safeguards, precautions, and actions could or should have been taken by a reasonable user or consumer of the aviation product similarly situated exercising reasonable care, caution, and procedure; or

(3) To any warnings protecting against or instructing with regard to dangers, hazards, or risks which are patent, open, or obvious and which should have been realized by a reasonable user or consumer of the aviation product.

Source: SL 2011, ch 113, § 10.