Aviation Accidents

Our years of experience with plane crashes and other mass disasters have given our team a complete understanding of how to investigate and prepare these cases for trial or settlement. We carefully investigate what caused each accident and hold the airline, aviation companies, airport, manufacturer, and anyone else who was at fault accountable.

From what we’ve seen, the most common reasons for aviation accidents are:

• Maintenance Negligence: It is becoming more common for airlines to hire third parties in the U.S. and abroad to take care of the maintenance of their planes. By doing this, airlines are putting passengers in needless danger, all to make more money by keeping costs down and making more money.
  
  
• Design or Manufacturing Defects: Design or manufacturing flaws that cause or contribute to an aviation accident can be used as the basis for a product liability lawsuit against the companies responsible. A plane or a part of a plane is said to have a “defective design” if it was made correctly, but something about the way it was designed made it more dangerous than it should have been. A design fault can influence an entire product line, not just a single product. A manufacturing defect is when an airplane or one of its parts is made in a way that isn’t safe and doesn’t match the original design or specifications. A problem with the way a product was made can affect an entire line of products or just one product.
  
  
• Flight Crew Negligence: A U.S. airline accident can happen if the crew doesn’t do their jobs well. If the pilot isn’t paying attention or isn’t properly trained to fly the plane, if the crew skips important safety checks, or if the flight attendants don’t do their jobs, there could be injuries in the air, crashes on the runway, or even devastating mid-air crashes.
  
  
• Corporate negligence: More and more, corporate policies are pushing airline pilots and crew members to fly with the least amount of fuel possible to save money or to land in unsafe ways to avoid delays and canceled flights. These ways to save money hurt safety and open the door to a possible U.S. airline accident without being necessary.