A National Transportation and Safety Board investigation into a 2013 Louisiana airplane accident revealed that a student pilot on the plane, a 28-year-old-man from Indiana, had marijuana and a pharmaceutical drug in his system at the time of the crash. The man's...
Aviation Accidents
Plane crashes into homes in Baker, Louisiana, pilot killed
On Friday, June 7, a King Air 200 crashed in Baker, Louisiana, killing the 71-year-old pilot. According to the local coroner, the pilot died from fire and inhalational injuries, as well as from blunt force trauma. The pilot was en route to McComb, Mississippi from...
Settlement reached in fatal helicopter-airplane crash
A settlement has been reached in a fatal 2010 aviation accident that involved an AirCare 5 helicopter and a Cessna Long airplane. The two aircraft collided in midair. A 32-year-old man and a 19-year-old man were killed in the crash that occurred on New Year's Eve near...
$28 million punitive award restored in Missouri plane crash suit
The families of five people who died in a plane crash in Franklin County, Missouri, in 2006 will split a punitive award of $28 million as well as compensatory damages of $20 million. A jury awarded the families the damages in April 2011 in the lawsuit against...
NTSB identifies problem of distracted flying: part one
As personal injury attorneys, we're all too familiar with the dangers of distracted driving behaviors like talking on cell phones and text messaging. Now those dangers have taken to the air, according to the National Transportation Safety Board. The board has ruled...
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