Category: Aviation Law

On July 4, 2015, a two-engine Embraer Phenom 300 business jet, with one pilot and three passengers aboard, crashed after the aircraft left the runway shortly after landing. The experienced pilot who had flown into the London-area airport on several prior occasions decided to continue a high-speed, steep visual approach to the runway instead of […]

Sometimes, you must file a lawsuit against the government or one of its agencies for any number of reasons. If you are involved in a traffic accident on a public roadway or hurt yourself due to a dangerous condition in a public park or on a public beach, or are harmed while a patient in […]

On February 18, 2016 a Bell-206 crashed into Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The crash injured the four passengers and the pilot. The boy passenger tragically died after being transported to a hospital. According to the NTSB preliminary report, “The pilot reported to the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) investigator-in-charge, that while in cruise flight over Ford […]

  If your guess is over a million you hit the jackpot.  That’s right, industry estimates are that in excess of 1 million drones will find themselves under Christmas trees with batteries and ready to fly.  So, how many of those drones will have been registered under the FAA’s mandate?  A very small fraction at […]

  In the span of five days, a SkyLife air ambulance medical helicopter carrying a patient to a hospital crashed in the California San Joaquin Valley (12/10/15), and an Air Methods medical helicopter crashed near Apache Junction, Arizona, which is just outside Phoenix (12/15/15). Both crashes happened at night, and early reports suggest that both […]