Monthly Archives: May 2009
As a nation waits for the recommendations of the National Transportation Safety Board, following its three days of hearings in May, it has posted an Advisory regarding some factual information it has found in the crash of Colgan Air Flight 3407 near Buffalo New York on Feb. 12, 2009. To view the advisory, please click here. Prior to the three-day hearing, the NTSB made its agenda available for the public to view. The hearings could be viewed live via the … Read more…
According to reports, on Wednesday a U.S. Army helicopter conducting a test flight crashed, killing the two soldiers on board. The Army is reportedly classifying the incident as a “hard landing” because the aircraft was under the pilot’s control when the accident occurred at Wheeler Army Airfield in Hawaii. The helicopter, an OH-58D Kiowa Warrior, was reportedly on fire when the Honolulu Fire Department responded to a downed aircraft call. The names of the deceased have not yet been released.
A King Air B350 reportedly crashed on Friday in Brazil, killing 14 people on board. Among the dead was Roger Ian Wright, a British born businessman, along with nine members of his family. According to reports, moments before impact the plane’s pilot reported that “visual and landing conditions were normal.” The crash occurred on approach to the Terravista Airport which serves the exclusive Terravista golf and condominium resort in Trancoso. The Brazilian air force has reportedly located the plane’s black … Read more…
On Saturday, a decorated pilot with over 2,700 flight hours in an F/A-18 Hornet reportedly crashed his 1966 Cessna 320 on approach to an airport in the town of Fallon, Nevada. Commander Luther H. Hook III and his three daughters all died in the accident. According to reports, Hook is a 1986 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and was, most recently, the Number 2 officer at Naval Air Station Fallon. Hook was reportedly returning from a trip to pick … Read more…
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) recently found that American Airlines was at fault for a September 28, 2007 engine fire in one of their MD-82 aircraft on a flight originating from Lambert-St. Louis International Airport. After an investigation, the NTSB concluded that maintenance workers’ failure to follow procedure caused the incident on the Chicago bound American flight 1400. According to reports, troubles with the plane’s left engine began 10 days prior to the fire. The engine’s repeated failure to … Read more…
Two small airplanes reportedly collided in mid-air over Long Beach Harbor, California around 5:45 p.m. Monday. Three people are reported to have been involved. One plane, a Cessna 172, was reported to have been carrying a student pilot and an instructor. The other small airplane is reported to have only been carrying a pilot. Search teams were scouring the waters off of the harbor. The Coast Guard, the Los Angeles City Fire Department and the Long Beach Fire Department are … Read more…
Bob Clifford and a team of lawyers from Clifford Law Offices are attending the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) hearings in Washington, D.C., for three days of hearings on the crash of Continental Connection Flight 3407 near Buffalo, New York. Mr. Clifford has been speaking out to the press on a number of issues, among them the apparent violation of the sterile cockpit rule, as acknowledged by Colgan Air officials themselves at the hearings. Here is a link to the … Read more…
Bob Clifford wrote an Op Ed piece for the Jamestown, New York Post-Journal newspaper. The article appeared May 3, 2009, and can be read in its entirety here.Mr. Clifford, who represents several families who lost loved ones in the Feb. 12 crash of Flight 3409 near Buffalo, New York, talks about the low airspeed alerter system that is available on other aircraft. If it had been on the Bombardier involved in this terrible crash, the tragedy could have been avoided.
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) reportedly is looking into whether the pilots were over-scheduled when operating Continental Connection Flight 3407 that crashed Feb. 12. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) will be holding hearings next week in Washington, D.C., into the cause of the tragic crash that killed everyone on board and a person on the ground. One of the key areas of scrutiny, according to the Washington Post, will be the pilots. Training of the pilot and co-pilot in … Read more…
