2000 + Accidents Page Two
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U-28 box canyon,
crashes into high terrain, William Young
T-33, fuel
filters, settled John Betts, George Flemming
HUEY COBRA ,
highwires, Runs into highwires on I-35 near Waco
T-38,
tail failure, settled
U-21, engine icing, Kingair crashes
on let down in Turkey. Plaintiff believed engine failure due to ice
ingestion, part settled
U-21, spider gear, no case
JOLLY GREEN GIANT, rotor failure balancing,
JOLLY
GREEN GIANT Rotor blade lost weights and became unbalanced , loss of
main rotor blade and crash near Gila Bend, Az. Settled
MOWHAWK,
engine gear train,
T-34, engine failure, settled
OV-10, ejection, i,p,7,8 Ejected outside
envelope for seat l.
OV-10, ejection Locktite
ejection actuator had Locktite applied by maintenance and didn't
work correctly in sequence.
T-28, tail strength, X
country training flight separation, settled
MOWHAWK,
engine failure, no case
T-37, pilot error, pilot was
tired man- no air conditioning -dehydration sickle cell anemia gene.
T-34, flat spin, instructor overpowered by student Annapolis
football player.
B-1 Bomber bird ingestion, no ejection settled
B-52 Bomber pump fire, RICO ACTION. Pumps overheat in B52
gas tank and cause vapor
explosion settled
B-52 pump
fire, RICO ACTION. Pumps overheat in B52 gas tank and cause vapor
explosion settled Tom Roe
T-33, fuel problem, engine,
S2F , NAVY, landing gear, 1st investigation for NAVY
Av-8
Harrier, ejection, settled, found expert Russ Sanford and
Koochembere
T-38 ejection settled –found expert for weber
seat.
T-33, loss of control, general’s son.
KC-135, fire on landing Alaska
C130, loose cargo injury,
settled ,confidential, national security Broken back,
BOEING VERTOL, transmission failure settled,
CH-46*,
transmission, settled
T-34 harness release
Chriss
CH-47, Rotor blade connection failure, manuals,
settled
C-9 Engine fail, USAF, Engine failed, pilot
shut down wrong one settled,
S3Aaileron servo failure, VERDICT
6.6 million plus Sanctions $239k. Loss of hydraulic flight controls lead
to manual
reversion. Failed to " latch up" into cable flight controls due to geometry and defective design of latching mechanism.
Three
crewman died during a catapault shot off carrier in Atlantic.
KC-135 pump fire, Defect due to military rebuild.
Kingair
C-12 approach, Juneau, Alaska, settled, Military suit against Alaska
Guard. Also product suit against Beech
Kiowa,
failed instruments, milcondef, no case.
Hughes 500,
Cayuse Night Stalker, no case
E2A, wire
bundle fire, kapton no case
Apache
Bucs roll settled
HM12 –53e minesweeper,
Instrument approach to Miramar Marine Jet,no case error
,low,
RECENT CASES
Kiowa helicopter Afghanistan
Experimental Veri e Z crash Houston –no case
Lear jet
Mexico city –no case
B-100 midair separation Gonzalez –no case
Mexico crash Rio Grande river area –no Case
Chinook
helicopter Special ops Afghanistan –Plumhoff
Bell 206 Longranger
crash Montgomery County.
Citrus aviation Crash Florida-
Spannair Madrid Spain 2008 On Going MD-82
Turkish Air
Amsterdam Netherlands 2009 &37-800
Turkish Air Isparta
MD-82 Turkey.
Tans Peru 737
Indonesian NB 421
helicopter
Romanian jet sales
Thomas McLarty
Egyptair 900
JD. JOHNSON
B-52 Bad fuel
Pump
Lear jet bad fuel pump
Helicopter crash Hawaii
–fuel
Cessna Crash Alamagordo Fire
DC-9 Denver Airport
Take off accident.
Detroit NWA Crash and collision on Runways,
F-16 Midair collisions near Nellis Red Flag areas.
F-16
CFIT vertigo night
Continental Airlines DC-9, Flight 1713, Denver,
Colorado, 1987
Northwest Airlines DC-9, Flight 255, Detroit,
Michigan, 1987
PIPER Pa-24, Eliot, Ma., settled
J.D. Johnson
PIPER Pa-24, No case CASE- malpractice attorney
missed statute. Colorado attorney J.D. Johnson
Mu-2 prop
failure, N.H, suspect prop dome failure, loosened props, loss of
control. JD
BELL 206 Engine failure, Mexico crash, settled Myron
Papadakis,
HAWKER SIDDELY, engine failures, settled
Exfoliation of chrome plating in fuel pumps due to water contaminated
fuel.
HAWKER SIDDELY, engine failures, settled
DC-8 Burlington
Air Express Toledo
BRS Recovery system, settled, J.D. Johnson
G.P. MATHERNE
BEECHCRAFT BONANZA V tail, Crash in to Ocean
after take off at Ft. Lauderdale...flutter
BEECHCRAFT BONANZA
V tail, Crash in OKLAHOMA Flutter
WACO KINNGAIR
Case
B-52 Bad fuel Pump
DC-9 Denver Airport Take off
accident.
F-16 Korea wire bundles
F-16 North Carolina
Instrument failure
F-16 Midair collisions near Nellis Red Flag
areas.
V tail Bonanza, Shawnee Oklahoma
Swearingen Tail
Failure
Light twin take off crash, Hooks Airport
Grumman Gulfstream CFIT accident Oil executives
Jolly Green
Rotor failure-Arizona
MU2 Chicago
F-15 Rudder Roll
F-15 Rudder ROLL ejection seat
A-10 FOM White Area jam or
restriction
A-10 FOM White Area Jamm Ft Polk Lost
Army King Air Insulak Turkey
Army King Air Texas
engine decouple .
A-10 FOM Davis Monthan
T-37 FOM
Gila Bend
Kingair, tail unzipped at rear pressure bulkhead in a C
model.
Possible prop reversal in flight. Mid air separation of
Kingair. Plaintiff theory in cruise flight prop reversal and
aircraft deformation
SWEARINGEN Tail unzipped at rivet repair,
Settled,
A-10 controls, jam or restriction of flight controls in
white area, Lost Dale
U-21, engine icing, Kingair crashes on let
down in Turkey. Plaintiff believed engine failure due to ice ingestion,
part settled
T-34 harness release
Travelaire N
Jersey crash
Donald Maciejewski
Cessna 150/Cessna 172 Mid-Air Collision
Green Cove Springs,
Florida 1991; PiperPA-28 Airplane Crash –
Sikorsky CH-53
Helicopter Crash - Jacksonville, Florida 1992;
Bell 47G
Helicopter Crash – Panama City, Florida 1993;
Sikorsky RH53
Helicopter Crash – Virginia Beach, Virginia 1994;
UT-60
Blackhawk Crash – Wiesbaden,Germany 1994;
OH-58 Helicopter Crash
– Mercury, Nevada 1995;
OH Helicopter Crash –Bisbee, Arizona
1995;
Bell 206 Jet Ranger Helicopter Crash – Lamoille, Nevada
1994;
UH-60Blackhawk Helicopter Crash – Hortense, Georgia 1995;
F-14 Tomcat Crash – Nashville,Tennessee 1996;
AH-1F Cobra
Helicopter Crash – Honolulu, Hawaii 1996;
Bell 206 Helicopter
Crash – Pigeon Forge, Tennessee1996;
Cherokee-Six Airplane Crash
– Gainesville, Florida 1996;
Piper PA-24 Airplane Crash –Palm
Beach, Florida 1997;
Schweitzer SA2-37 Airplane Crash – Green
Cove Springs, Florida1998;
Grumman AA1B Airplane Crash –
Hilliard, Florida 1999;
Piper PA 28- Airplane Crash
–Tallahassee, Florida 1999;
Cessna C-206 Airplane Crash –
Pretoria, South Africa 1999;
Bell 206B Helicopter Crash –
Philadelphia, Mississippi 1999;
Cessna 172 Airplane Crash –
Bowie,Maryland 1999;
Velocity XL/RG Airplane Crash – Ft. Pierce,
Florida 2000;
Cessna 172 AirplaneCrash – New Smyrna Beach,
Florida 2001;
Gruman AA-1C Airplane Crash, Pompano Beach,Florida,
2001;
RV-3/Extra Airplane Mid-Air Collision – St. Augustine,
Florida 2001; C-23Airplane Crash – Unadilla, Georgia 2001;
MD 600 Helicopter Crash, Phoenix, Arizona, 2001;
AH-64 Apache
Helicopter Crash – Camp Blanding, Florida 2002;
FEDEX Boeing 727
Crash,Tallahassee, Florida, 2002;
R-22/Piper PA-25 Mid-Air
Collision, North Palm Beach Airport,Florida,
2003; Swearingen
SA-26 Airplane Crash, Jacksonville, Florida, 2003;
Beech A-36
Airplane Crash, Pikeville, Kentucky, 2005;
Bell 206 Helicopter
Crash, Myrtle Grove,Louisiana, 2005;
Cessna 340A Airplane Crash,
Melbourne, Florida 2006;
Robinson R-44Helicopter Crash, Ponte
Vedra Beach, Florida, 2007;
OH-6 Helicopter Crash, Charlotte,
NorthCarolina, 2009;
Piper PA-11 Airplane Crash, Quincy,
Florida, 2009;
Maule M-5 Airplane Crash,Tallahassee, Florida,
2009;
Saudi Arabian FLT 27 Airlines Incident, Europe, 2010;
OH- 58 C Helicopter Crash, Iraq,
JAMES T CROUSE
British International Helicopter's Boeing Model 234 crash (the
world's largest civilian helicopter disaster)
Lockheed C-5A
crash at Ramstein AB, Germany (1990),
British Midlands 737-400
crash in England (1989),
the U.S. Army's Chinook crash in
Mannheim, Germany (1982),
Piedmont/Henson Airline Beech 99 crash
in the Shenandoah Valley, Virginia 1985).
Plaintiffs' Steering
Committees in the Comair EMB-120 crash near Detroit, Michigan (1997),
American Eagle ATR-72 crash in Indiana (1994),
ASA
Carrollton, Georgia Crash (1995),
US-. Air B-737 crash near
Pittsburgh (1994),
the TAN/SAHSA Boeing 727 crash in Honduras
(1989)
LAN/Chile BAE 146 crash in Chile (1991).
Fairchild Metro II and Mooney M20C aircraft;
engine-failure/pilot error on Piper Navajo and
engine-failure/pilot error on Aerostar,
mid air on Bell
206/Cessna Seaplane,
mid air on Piper Saratoga/Mitsubishi MU-2,
mid air on World War I vintage bi-wing mid-air collisions;
pilot error crashes involving Boeing 727,
pilot error crashes
involving Boeing 737,
pilot error crashes involving BAe146,
pilot error crashes involving Cessna 172,
pilot error crashes
involving Cessna 310,
pilot error crashes involving Robinson
R22,
pilot error crashes involving Bell 206
pilot error
crashes involving AS-350 aircraft;
drive system failures on
Enstrom,
drive system failures on Chinook (military & civilian),
drive system failures on Bell UH-1 and AS350
flight control
system failures on Lockheed C5A,
flight control system failures
on Sikorsky UH-60,
flight control system failures on S-58
(logging),
flight control system failures on Bell 212.
flight control system failures on Bell UH-1,
flight control
system failures on Bell AH-1S
flight control system failures on
AH1W Cobra aircraft;
propeller failure on the Embraer 120,
icing on the ATR-72,
icing on the EMB-120,
icing on the
Beech C-12,
The Entebbe hijacking.
HOWARD ACOSTA
B-1 Bomber Loss of aircraft Pelican ingestion, failure of egress
systems.
B-52 Bomber Crash KI sawyers submersible fuel pump
explosion
F-16 Top Gun in Korea Harduvel V. General Dynamics
S-3 Viking Crash –Loss of control on cat shot – Grey v. Lockheed.
Lake Amphibian
Coast Guard radar surveillance aircraft
Puerto Rico.
Single engine aircraft Engine Failure near
Ocalla, fatalities,
H-58 Helicopter failure –Logging operation
failed Pinion Gear.
A-36 Bonanza Crash on Approach to Pensacola
Florida
F-16 G Loss of consciousness –no case
F-16 G
Loss of consciousness –no case
F-16 G Loss of consciousness –no
case
F-16 G Loss of consciousness –no case
F-16 G Loss
of consciousness –no case
F-16 G Loss of consciousness –no case
2 F-16 Midair Red Flag – no Case.
PZK, pilot error
fuel starvation, Product restraint system, settled
LAKE AMPHIBIAN,
engine loss, settled
LAKE AMPHIBIAN, engine loss, settled
F-16 PARTS settled Job related employment restitution,
whistleblower.
CHALLENGER, Engineer suggested alternate failure
modes and was fired.
F-16 simulation electrical malfunctions
JOHN C. ALLMAN
Army King Air Alaska,
Crash at Juneau
H-58 Helicopter Logging Operation,
FEDEX
Engine Failure Cessna,
American Airlines Crash MD-82 Little Rock
Ark.
Value jet Crash in Florida swamp
Cessna 310
Electrical failure –Arkansas.
Light twin Aircraft-lost fuel
starvation Virginia.
Navy S-3 Loss of Catapault-No Case loss of
control.
BEECHCRAFT BONANZA, A-36 pitch down vertical dive
to ground.
American Airlines Flight , Little Rock, Arkansas John
Howie, allman
Valujet Flight 592, killing musician Walter Hyatt;
Florida Ev Mike
CESSNA 172, lost aircraft, lost Howard
CESSNA 310, Electrical loss, generator design, generator buss overload,
mechanic error, Mike Slack, John Howie. Allman
R-22 crash in New
Mexico with Texas resident - small damage –referred for settlement MYRON
PAPADAKIS
Allman
Avco Lycoming, Allied 101 engines, referred Myron
Papadakis ,Allman
ATA training Crash Myron Papadakis case , Rick
Leeper dulmage /Garnett
CHARLES A PINNEY
1. F-14 Flap/Slat Gearbox malfunction
2. F-14 Electrical
Overload/Flight Control Effect
3. A-4 Fuel Control
Malfunction/Failure
4. F-4 Uncontrolled Flight Into Ocean
5. Bellanca Viking Controlled Flight Into Terrain/ATC Controller Error
6. Corporate Jet hydroplane off runway in Colorado.
CAPTAIN ANDREAS MATEOU
conducted numerous air
safety investigations including engines failure,
hard landing,
rejected take-off,
dual hydraulic failure,
GPWS,
TCAS
severe bird strikes
aviation-legal
consultant in a number of aviation litigation cases
the Falcon
900-B accident that occurred over the Romanian airspace in 1999,
the YAK-42 accident in Thessaloniki in 1997,
the A320 accident
in Bahrain in 2000,
the Navaho ditching accident in Larnaca in
2002
Helios B373 accident in Grammatiko in 2005.
DR. SOFIA MATEOU
LEGAL CONSULTANT IN
ACCIDENTS
the Falcon 900-B accident that occurred over
the Romanian airspace in 1999,
the YAK-42 accident in
Thessaloniki in 1997,
the A320 accident in Bahrain in 2000,
the Navaho ditching accident in Larnaca in 2002
the Helios
B373 accident in Grammatiko in 2005.
legal advisor to cabin
crew consultant
OTHER AVIATION MATTERS
FAA- Lear rental – part 121 violation alleged
FAA crash – pilot
breaks minimums
FAA pilot turns wrong way after TO @ Hobby
FAA Medical passes out –cropduster- after cold water
FAA
Medical – Driving record does not equal bad pilot
Faa Pilot
lands at Huntsville –nosewheel-Hammick
FAA Plot lands on road
near 1960
Pilot fired –employment -EEOC
Pilot Fired
employment- Grievance
Pilot disciplined Grievance –
Pilot disciplined – Grievance
FAA Certificate Actions
Wrong
airport landing
Learjet rental irregularities
Medical--
Epilepsy
Medical--driving record
Airport crash
ATC wrong direction turn
Below
minimums landing
Nose wheel failure on landing
Off
airport landing beach landing
Too many Speeding tickets equals
medical problem
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