Aviation Related Injuries and Death

Aviation Accident and Disaster Lawyer

Each year, millions of adults and children place their lives in the hands of experienced professional airline pilots and their crews, to ensure their safe arrival at their intended destinations. For their part, America’s major airline carriers boast am overall safety record that rivals or exceeds that of most other modes of mass transportation, including trains, automobiles, and cruise ships (adjusted for the actual number of annual passengers carried). Yet despite dramatic advances in high tech air navigation systems, anti-terrorist screening practices, stringent safety compliance mandates, issued and enforced by the Federal Aviation Administration, and the National Transportation Safety Board, aviation-related injuries and death remain a recognized risk that begins with the car trip to the airport, and ends only upon the passengers’ safe arrival to her ultimate destination.

In contrast to large commercial airline operations, another segment of air travel accounts for far higher frequency of injury and death. According to published statistics, private aircraft pilots, including those known as “weekend flyers”, are responsible for a substantial percentage of all aviation-related injuries and deaths. While those who have studied and compared the injury/fatality rates between commercial airline carriers and private pilots emphasize the significant gap in equipment quality and maintenance protocols, pilot and crew experience, and other relevant factors, the actual cause of such disasters do in fact share much in common.

Among both commercial airlines and private aircraft disasters, the most common cause of aircraft-related injuries and death include: encounters with unforeseen weather systems; mechanical failure, including airframe defects, metal fatigue, electrical system malfunction, tainted fuel, and hydraulic failure; navigational errors, including erroneous radar data furnished by Terminal Radar Approach Control facilities or TRACONs, which track and direct planes from just outside the range at which they are visible from the tower (about 5 miles) to a range of 40 or 50 miles; insufficient airframe and engine maintenance or excessive age; defects in airport concourses and jet-way floor surfaces, resulting in falls by passengers; in-flight food poisoning; crew fatigue; and, more recently, the increasing risk of injury or death caused by a terrorist act.

For a free, no obligation consultation to learn how Parker Scheer LLP can help you to recover for an injury or death caused by aviation-related negligence, call us. There is never a fee charged for an initial consultation and all information furnished will remain strictly confidential.

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