Dutch and Chicago Law Firms Retained by 17 Families in Turkish Airlines Crash
Press Release, 09/12/2009Clifford Law Offices of Chicago and AKD Prinsen Van Wijmen, a law firm in The Netherlands, have been retained by 17 families who lost loved ones or some who survived with severe injuries in the crash of Turkish Airlines Flight 1951 that plunged into a muddy field just before it landed at Schiphol airport in Amsterdam on Feb. 25.
The plane, a seven-year-old Boeing 737-800, had taken off from Istanbul. Boeing is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.
Dutch investigators have been looking into the cause of the crash and had focused at one point on a faulty altimeter.
The pilots, who were among the nine people killed in the crash, reportedly reacted too late to a stall warning and failed to pull up the aircraft in time, Dutch Safety Board President Peter van Vollenhoeven told journalists a few months ago. Eighty other were injured in the crash about two miles from the airport.
The Safety Board president also confirmed that the Turkish Airlines plane already had twice suffered from a similar problem in the past.
