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Long Island pilots Joseph Lepore and Jan Paladino may be home for the holidays, but the investigations and litigation set in motion by the midair collision in Brazil will be continuing into the new year and possibly beyond. More...
Police on Friday formally accused two U.S. pilots in connection with Brazil's deadliest air disaster, saying their "lack of caution" at the controls of an executive jet played a role in the collision over the Amazon that killed 154 people. One of the pilots' lawyers, former Justice Minister Jose Carlos Dias, called the accusation biased and said police were simply "looking for someone to blame for the crime." More...
The Brazilian authorities have charged two United States pilots with endangering air safety following the country's worst aviation disaster. Joseph Lepore, 42, and Jan Paladino, 34, face trial over the crash in September, in which 154 people died. More...
American attorneys representing families of victims in Brazil's worst air disaster said Wednesday they filed a second lawsuit adding the families of 22 victims to an original lawsuit filed earlier this month. The legal action filed in the Eastern District federal court in Brooklyn, New York cites executive-jet company ExcelAire Service Inc. and its pilots. It also names Honeywell International Inc., saying defective equipment contributed to the crash that killed 154 aboard a Brazilian commercial airliner. More...
While air traffic control errors seem to be growing more likely as the primary cause for the Sept. 29 midair collision in Brazil that killed 154, the radio management unit, or RMU, is under scrutiny from Brazilian and American investigators, according to aviation experts. The RMU is a rectangular electronic console that pilots on larger aircraft use to program critical navigation and communication equipment. More...
American attorneys representing the families of victims in Brazil's worst air disaster filed suit in a U.S. federal court Monday against ExcelAire Service Inc. and Honeywell International Inc. alleging negligence. More...
A plane crash that killed 96 people in Nigeria might have been averted if the pilot had heeded advice from air traffic controllers to wait for a lightning storm to clear before taking off, the aviation minister said Monday. More...
A Nigerian airliner carrying 104 people, including the man regarded as the spiritual leader of Muslims in Nigeria, crashed in a storm Sunday after taking off from the airport in Abuja. Most of those on board were feared dead, but at least six people survived. More...
The intense finger pointing that began in the wake of the Flight 5191 crash escalated yesterday when Comair sued the Urban County Airport Board and the federal government. More...
Comair sued Blue Grass Airport in Lexington and the federal government yesterday, saying they must "share responsibility" for the August crash of a regional jet that killed 49 people. More...
Comair sued the federal government and the Lexington airport Friday over the deadly crash of a commuter plane that mistakenly took off from a too-short runway. Forty-nine people were killed in the accident Aug. 27. In a statement, the airline said it intends to reach fair settlements with the victims' families but is suing to ensure other parties that bear responsibility pay their share. More...
As salvage crews searched Wednesday for the last four bodies of the 154 people killed in an apparent midair collision on Sept. 29, aviation experts, victims’ families and the Brazilian public were criticizing the investigation for what they said was a lack of transparency and questioning whether the full story of the accident would ever be known. More...
Honeywell said on Sunday that the transponder aboard the Legacy jet was not subject to a recent airworthiness directive that outlined deficiencies in some models. More...
Gol airlines has contacted families of 154 victims of Brazil's deadliest air crash to discuss compensation for the tragedy, the company said on Monday. More...
Escritório americano é especializado em ações judiciais de indenização em casos de acidentes aéreos. Advogados norte-americanos farão uma investigação paralela à conduzida por autoridades brasileiras para levantar as causas do acidente com o Boeing 737-800 da Gol que matou 154 pessoas. Os advogados Lexi Hazam e Robert Lieff -do escritório americano Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, especializado em processos de indenização em casos de acidentes aéreos- e o brasileiro Leonardo Amarante foram contratados por familiares das vítimas. Mais...
American attorneys representing families of victims in Brazil's worst air disaster said Monday they were conducting their own investigation to determine responsibility for the crash that killed 154 people and seek compensation. Lexi Hazam, an attorney with the San Francisco law firm Lieff Global, said the probe, parallel to a separate government inquiry, would be supervised by Hans-Peter Graf, a former head investigator for the Swiss Aviation Authority. More...
Famílias das vítimas brasileiras do Vôo 1907 da Gol contrataram um escritório de advogados de San Francisco, na Califórnia, especializado em pedidos de indenização por acidentes aéreos. Eles vão abrir uma ação civil nos Estados Unidos pedindo compensação financeira pela perda da vida de seus parentes no acidente. Robert Lieff, proprietário da firma, confirmou à Folha a contratação, mas não quis precisar o número exato de familiares, que "passaria de uma dezena". Aprenda mais...
Brazilian Air Force officials on Thursday identified what they said were equipment breakdowns and confusion that probably contributed to the apparent collision of two jets over the Amazon a week ago. Investigators still have not determined how three systems failed: a nearly new, top-notch air traffic control network and an anticollision system on each of the planes. More...
Brazilian Air Force investigators confirmed Wednesday that the Boeing 737 involved in an apparent midair collision last Friday was visible on radar until the time of the accident. They declined to say whether the other plane, an Embraer executive jet, was also visible, an indication that equipment on the smaller plane to make it visible to the airliner may not have been working. More...
Two American executive jet pilots were ordered by a judge to stay in Brazil while authorities investigate whether they caused a midair collision with an airliner that crashed into the Amazon, killing all 155 people aboard. A Brazilian newspaper reported that the pilots' Legacy jet, which was carrying seven Americans, disobeyed an order by the control tower to descend to a lower altitude just before coming into contact with Gol airlines Flight 1907. More...
It had been an uneventful, comfortable flight. With the window shade drawn, I was relaxing in my leather seat aboard a $25 million corporate jet that was flying 37,000 feet above the vast Amazon rainforest. The 7 of us on board the 13-passenger jet were keeping to ourselves. Without warning, I felt a terrific jolt and heard a loud bang, followed by an eerie silence, save for the hum of the engines. More...
Investigators said Sunday that they believed the crash of a Brazilian jetliner with 155 aboard in the Amazon rainforest was probably caused by a collision with a small business jet. Rescuers ruled out the possibility of finding survivors from the Friday crash, the worst in Brazilian history. More...
Brazilian search-and-rescue crews resumed operations today near the wreckage of a Gol passenger plane that crashed in the Amazon jungle with 155 people aboard. No signs of any survivors have been found. More...
Authorities said Sunday there were no survivors among the 155 people aboard the Brazilian jetliner that crashed deep in the Amazon jungle in the nation’s worst air disaster, as rescue workers began pulling bodies out of the twisted wreckage. More...
Brazilian air force pilots spotted the wrecked fusilage of a jetliner that crashed deep in the Amazon jungle on Saturday, and an aviation official said it was unlikely any of the 155 people aboard had survived. The president of Brazil's airport authority, Jose Carlos Pereira, said the pilots searched for Gol airlines Flight 1907 through the night in the remote region. More...
A Brazilian jetliner with 155 people aboard was reported missing Friday over the Amazon jungle, aviation authorities said. Initially, the officials said they believed Gol airlines flight 1907 had collided with a smaller plane after the jetliner left the jungle city of Manaus in the remote south western region of Para state. News reports said the plane reportedly struck a Brazilian-made Legacy, a smaller executive jet. More...
A private jet with a cockpit comparable to Comair's Bombardier CRJ 1000 went down the runway at 6:30 a.m. and taxied down part of it three times in an attempt to learn what the Comair Flight 5191 pilot and co-pilot saw on Aug. 27 before the 6:07 a.m. crash. More...
Experts who study airplane accidents say the errors that lead to crashes are similar to the common mistakes people make in their everyday lives, akin to locking keys in the car or forgetting an item on a grocery list. More...
After Fayette Circuit Judge Pamela Goodwine threatened to hold Comair in contempt of court, the airline yesterday provided contact information for relatives of Flight 5191 victims. More...
The day after the plane crash that killed 49 people, high-ranking officials with the Federal Aviation Administration suggested that the Lexington air traffic manager was a "renegade" and speculated he would be fired for having only one controller on duty at the time. More...
Comair was using an outdated chart of Lexington's Blue Grass Airport when one of its planes took off on the wrong runway and crashed, killing 49 people, and the airline is now urging pilots to use "extreme caution," according to an e-mail obtained by the Associated Press. More...
Months before the Comair jet crash that killed 49 people, air traffic controllers at the Lexington airport wrote to federal officials complaining about a hostile working environment in the tower and short-staffing on the overnight shift, according to letters obtained by The Associated Press. More...
Diagrams of Lexington's Blue Grass Airport issued to Comair pilots last week did "not accurately reflect actual airport signage," the company said in a memo to pilots in which it urged them to use "extreme caution." More...
Comair has begun warning pilots to use "extreme caution" when navigating runways at the airport where a crash killed 49 people last month, saying some diagrams aren't accurate, according to an e-mail obtained Monday by The Associated Press. More...
The family of a 39-year-old man from Lafayette, La., has sued Comair Inc. over the crash of Flight 5191. Bryan Keith Woodward, an electrician, had gone to Kentucky with Jamie Hebert and their two daughters, Lauren Hebert, 15, and Mattie-Kay Hebert, 11, attorney David Wise of Chicago said yesterday. More...
National directive comes after crash in Ky. killed 49 out of 50 on board
Air traffic controllers who nap during break times could be suspended for up to 10 days under rules the Federal Aviation Administration has begun enforcing nationally since the deadly crash of Comair Flight 5191. Learn more...
Dan Silverthorn had just touched down when his single-engine Beech C23 jolted violently and careered off the runway on its belly in a shower of sparks. From the air, the veteran pilot couldn't tell that the runway at Higginsville, Mo., had a fresh layer of pavement that ended abruptly, creating an 8-inch ledge that ripped the landing gear from his plane like the pull-tab from a sardine can. More...
Clark and Bobbie Sue Benton were supposed to be vacationing in the Caribbean. Instead, they were buried in this south-central Kentucky town, five days after they were killed when Comair Flight 5191 crashed. More...
As the first lawsuits were filed yesterday by families of Comair Flight 5191 victims, aviation law experts said plaintiffs can expect to recover several million dollars each, depending on earnings and life expectancies of those who died. More...
A lawsuit blaming Comair for a deadly crash at the Lexington airport was filed Friday, less than a week after the nation's deadliest airline disaster in five years. More...
A jetliner blew a tire, skidded off a runway and caught fire while landing in northeastern Iran today, killing up to 29 of the 147 passengers aboard, Iranian state TV reported. More...
Democratic lawmakers are demanding an investigation into the practice of allowing air-traffic controllers to work two shifts in 24 hours, a practice denounced by sleep experts. More...
Two congressmen called for an investigation into the staffing at airport control towers after investigators revealed that only one controller was on duty when Comair Flight 5191 crashed in Kentucky and that he had had just two hours of sleep between shifts. More...
A cockpit warning system used by only a few commercial airlines might have prevented the deadly Comair jet crash last weekend if the plane had been equipped with the $18,000 piece of technology, a former top federal safety official says. More...
Delta Air Lines Inc. has agreed to extend the deadline for its Comair subsidiary to bid on regional jet service as Comair continues to cope with the crash of Flight 5191 that killed 49 people, Comair's top executive said on Thursday. More...
In the day leading up to the crash of Comair Flight 5191, a federal investigator says the air traffic controller on duty had worked for almost 15 hours and slept for two. The controller had only nine hours off between work shifts Saturday. More about problems leading to the Comair Delta Kentucky crash.
The lone air traffic controller on duty the morning Comair Flight 5181 crashed cleared the jet for takeoff, then turned his back to do some "administrative duties" as the aircraft veered down the wrong runway, a federal investigator said Tuesday. More...
The lone air traffic controller on duty the morning Comair Flight 5191 crashed cleared the jet for takeoff, then turned his back to do some "administrative duties" as the aircraft veered down the wrong runway, a federal investigator said Tuesday. Learn more...
The Federal Aviation Administration on Tuesday acknowledged that only one controller was in the tower, in violation of FAA policy, when a Comair jet crashed Sunday while trying to take off from the wrong runway in Lexington, Kentucky. More...
NTSB investigators confirmed Sunday night that the crash of a Delta-Comair commuter flight from Lexington, Kentucky to Atlanta came after the jetliner took off on the wrong runway. 49 people died. More information...
The sole survivor of a commuter plane crash in Lexington, Kentucky is in critical condition this morning. Comair jet co-pilot James Polehinke was the only survivor pulled from the burning wreckage of a crash that killed 49 people yesterday. Learn more...
A Delta Air Lines Inc. Comair commuter plane crashed shortly after takeoff at Blue Grass Airport in Lexington, Kentucky, killing 49 and critically injuring one. More...
A newlywed couple starting their honeymoon, a Habitat for Humanity board member and a businessman who took an early flight to get home to his children were among the victims of Comair Flight 5191, friends and relatives said Sunday. Learn more...
Forty-nine of the 50 people aboard Delta Flight 5191 were killed when the aircraft crashed Sunday morning shortly after takeoff from Blue Grass Airport in Lexington, Kentucky, according to Fayette County Coroner Gary Ginn. Learn more...
A Comair jet crashed and burned in a Kentucky pasture on Sunday after a failed takeoff on a short runway, killing all but one of the 50 people aboard, authorities said. More...
A full seven-seater Piper Cherokee plane en route to Tinian crashed at 2:15am yesterday, a minute after taking off from the Saipan International Airport. More...
Investigators are looking into whether the crew of an Airbus jet that went off a runway in Siberia on July 9 may have improperly used a braking system that was partly disabled before takeoff, people with knowledge of the inquiry say. More...
A passenger plane slammed into a wheat field and burst into flames minutes after takeoff Monday in eastern Pakistan. All 45 people on board were killed, officials said. More...
Flight 778 touched down smoothly on a rain-slicked airport in Siberia on Sunday morning after an overnight flight from Moscow. Then, one young passenger recalled, something went seriously wrong. More...
An Airbus passenger jet that crashed into the Black Sea Wednesday morning with the loss of everyone on board had been carefully maintained and was in good technical condition, Armenia's civil aviation expert said Wednesday. More...
An Armenian passenger plane crashed in stormy weather early Wednesday off Russia's Black Sea coast as it was headed in for landing, killing all 113 people on board, emergency officials said. More...
The family of a pilot who was killed when two small planes collided has been awarded $25.2 million. The Broward County jury awarded the money Wednesday to Steve Ross' wife and four children. Ross, 46, a Boca Raton chaplain, was one of five people killed when the planes crashed in the water off Deerfield Beach on June 16, 2003. More...
A team of lawyers representing 11 victims of last August’s Helios Airways plane disaster have announced that the families have filed a lawsuit against Boeing in the United States. More...
A federal lawsuit was filed Tuesday against Chicago-based Boeing Co. on behalf of the estates of two people killed in a plane crash last year in Greece. More...
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