by Tom Dunn | Mar 3, 2023 | Crashes, Home
Unforeseen Encounters with Turbulence On Wednesday, March 1, 2023, seven passengers aboard Lufthansa flight 469 sustained injuries requiring hospitalization resulting from severe turbulence that the airplane encountered while in cruise flight at 37,000 feet over...
by Tom Dunn | Feb 28, 2023 | Crashes, Home
PC-12 Medevac Crash Sadly, another PC-12 medevac airplane, this one federally registered as N273SM, has crashed. The crash occurred on the night of February 24, 2023, after takeoff in poor weather from Reno, Nevada, enroute to Salt Lake City, Utah. All five occupants...
by Tom Dunn | Dec 21, 2022 | Cases, Crashes, Home
Hawaiian Airlines Flight 35 On December 18, 2022 at about 10:30 am local time, HA35 experienced severe turbulence causing injuries to a large number of passengers. Three dozen people were hurt – 11 of them seriously – when a flight from Phoenix to Honolulu...
by Tom Dunn | Dec 21, 2022 | Home
Understanding Turbulence There are two main categories to learn when trying to understand turbulence; what is the degree of the turbulence and what is the cause of the turbulence. The degree describes the severity of the turbulence and how the airplane experiences the...
by Tom Dunn | Nov 3, 2022 | Cases, Crashes, Home
KAL-631 – Korean Airlines A330 Crashes on Third Landing Attempt at Cebu International Airport in the Philippines Fortunately, all passengers and crew survived multiple approaches, touch-downs and final landing attempt, in runway over run and crash into a concrete...
by Tom Dunn | Oct 7, 2022 | Cases, Home, Rulings
Why Jurors and Jurists Should Doubt the Conclusions and Analyses of the United States National Transportation Safety Board An unfortunate truth in aviation litigation is that a product manufacturer’s litigation defense begins during its involvement in the National...
