Lawsuit Follows Truckee Tahoe Airport Crash
A negligence lawsuit has been filed by a 15 year-old girl because of injuries she suffered in a 2009 plane crash at the Truckee, Nevada airport.
On Sept. 7, 2009, the then 14 year-old girl was flying from Truckee to San Jose with her friend in a plane piloted by her friend’s parents. The lawsuit claims the pilots of the Cessna P206B filled the plane with an excessive amount of fuel – because fuel is cheaper in Truckee than in San Jose – and therefore made the plane too heavy for takeoff.
The young girl suffered multiple injuries including her back broken in six places and a brain hemorrhage with a concussion. She continues to suffer from her injuries.
One of the pilots, now a paraplegic from the crash, claims they were not “tankering” fuel to save money and that she had planned the flight including the weight of the fuel. Her daughter and her husband also suffered injuries in the crash.
The lawsuit claims the pilots disregard for the high-density altitude or “thin air” was the major cause of the crash.
The amount of damages asked requested for personal injury has not been released.
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Posted by 6:07 pm
Cockpit Fire Forces United Airlines Plane To Make Emergency Landing
United Airlines Flight 27 from New York to Los Angeles made an emergency landing at Virginia’s Dulles International on Sunday due to a fire in the cockpit. The fire was extinguished prior to landing and no injuries were reported.
For a long time, the Boeing 757 has had known problems with the heating system in a cockpit window and investigators are looking into whether this was a factor in the fire.
One of the passengers, sitting in the second row, stated she smelled smoke about 30 minutes into the flight and then the cockpit door opened and the captain requested a fire extinguisher. The first cabin filled with smoke.
After landing at Dulles, the passengers remained seated until a firefighter came on board to open the cockpit door. Once the door was open, the passengers were able to see the windshield was completely cracked and shattered.
The NTSB is investigating to determine it this incident was due to a recurring problem involved in previous 757 cockpit fires, or a new issue. In 2007, the NTSB recommended to the FAA that airlines be required to replace the heat terminal block on all Boeing 747s, 757s, 767s, and 777s.
In March of 2008, the FAA proposed a rule that gave airlines a choice of regularly inspecting the heat terminal blocks or replacing then – the Boeing 747 was not included in the FAA proposed order. The airlines strongly opposed the order and it hasn’t been made final even though the FAA said in 2008 it was aware of nine incidents of electrical arcing at the terminal blocks and “more than one incident” of open flames.
All planes made since 2005 have used a different wiring system which Boeing is confident has solved the problem.
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Posted by 10:45 am
