In April of last year, a Pennsylvania jury handed down an $89 million verdict against the manufacturer of an airplane carburetor after a crash killed four people and severely injured a fifth. The verdict in favor of the plaintiffs - which includes the survivor and the estates of three of the deceased victims - includes a $64 million punitive award after the jury found the defendant's conduct was malicious, wanton, willful or oppressive. The estate of the fourth victim who died did not bring a claim.
Long-arm jurisdiction may exist over a company that performed maintenance work on the plaintiff's airplane even though the defendant company is based in Wisconsin and the airplane crash occurred in New York, ruled the U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York. In Maloney et ano v. McFarland Johnson, Inc., et al., Judge John T. Elfvin found that the plaintiff had established a prima facie case for long-arm jurisdiction under CPLR Section 302(a)(3). Specifically, the judge found there was evidence to show that the defendant had engaged in or solicited business within New York.
Two brothers, both Germantown High School graduates, died in Florida on Thursday night after their small plane crashed . Kyle Henegar, 26, a graduate of the Florida Institute of Technology, and his brother, Kristopher Henegar, 22, set to graduate from FIT in December, were aboard the plane with a flight instructor and another student who were also killed when they crashed during takeoff from Palm Beach International Airport.
Survivors of an airplane crash in Puerto Rico can't establish air controller liability, the 1st Circuit has ruled. Survivors of a small-plane crash in Puerto Rico sued the United States under the Federal Tort Claims Act, alleging that the air traffic controller on duty was partly at fault.
It may be the greatest line in the history of Hollywood sex scandals. It was 1958, and actress Elizabeth Taylor -- who died Wednesday at 79 -- had just lost her husband, producer Mike Todd, in an airplane crash.
HONOLULU, Sept. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- The Boeing 747-400 cargo airplane that crashed near Dubai airport on September 3rd might have landed safely if the airplane had been equipped with emergency vision technology that permits pilots to see under conditions of unstoppable blinding smoke. Vision safety equipment is installed on approximately 1,500 airplanes, including aircraft flown by high- ranking government officials and on executive business jets; however it is only found on a few commercial airline fleets. Preliminary reports from flight recorder data indicate that smoke in the cockpit obscured the pilots visibility. The pilots were also overheard to be "flying blind" before attempting to land using information about ground speed, altitude, and direction given to them verbally by ground...
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Before his death at fifty-five in 1935 in an airplane crash with pilot Wylie Post, he had authored six books, appeared in seventy-one films, hosted numerous radio broadcasts, and become a popular speaker on the lecture circuit.
In recent weeks, Roger Jensen of Amery had talked excitedly to colleagues about a planned trip with volunteers to build houses in Guatemala. He scheduled vacation time for the trip, and his boss said he collected copper pipe from a facility his company was closing to raise money.
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