Monthly Archives: December 2008

 

Denver Air Crash

 

Plane crashes are complicated events.  Families of loved ones or those aboard deserve answers but they are never easy or simple to obtain.  The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) immediately sent a Go-Team of more than a dozen investigators after it occurred, but piecing together the cause of a burned wreckage takes time. All 115 people aboard, which included 110 passengers and five crew members, made it out of the fiery wreckage.  38 people were injured and miraculously no one … Read more…

Created by Clifford Law Offices on December 27, 2008 |
Filed under: Commercial Aviation

 

New O’Hare Runway Causes Controversy

 

  Chicago.  It’s not uncommon to see little league games in the summer filling the parks and people walking their dogs along the tree-lined streets. So when airplanes began flying in on a new runway to O’Hare, just minutes away, right over the homes and schools, residents got mad.  Very mad.  They are saying they have been lied to by Chicago Department of Aviation and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).  They say their property values are declining. They say they … Read more…

Created by Clifford Law Offices on December 23, 2008 |
Filed under: Airports

 

Denver Plane Crash

 

It truly is a miracle that no one was killed when Continental Airline’s Flight 1404 went off the runway during takeoff Saturday at Denver International Airport in Colorado. Imagine sitting in a seat of that Boeing 737 aircraft as it plunges into a ravine, shearing off the landing gear and its left engine.  Fire burst out, smoke is everywhere and people are fearful that the plane is about to explode. With four fire stations just a couple hundred yards away, … Read more…

Created by Clifford Law Offices on December 22, 2008 |
Filed under: Uncategorized

 

Ice at the Airports

 

Created by Clifford Law Offices on December 18, 2008 |
Filed under: Airports