April 2011

A pilot flew his new Cirrus into conditions of poor visibility and crashed, killing himself and his passenger.  The passenger’s family sued not just the pilot, but Cirrus as well. 

Why sue Cirrus?  According to the family, Cirrus didn’t train the pilot properly when he showed up at the factory to pick up his new plane, and

There’s not a lot of air traffic at night. So some air traffic control towers close altogether.  Any landing aircraft is on its own.  Other air traffic control towers are staffed with just one controller.  Not surprisingly, lone controllers working the night shift tend to doze off. 

That little secret is now out. That led

A McDonnell Douglas MD-82 crashed in August 2008 while taking off from Barajas Airport in Madrid. 154 on board were killed and 18 were injured. The injured passengers and the families of those killed filed lawsuits in the US against Boeing, which merged with Spanair 5022 Crash LocationMcDonnell Douglas in 1997, claiming that the aircraft was defective.

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