Twenty passengers were injured aboard an Emirates flight from Dubai to Kochi after it encountered severe turbulence at 35,000 feet prior to descent into India. The Boeing 777-200 with 350 passengers dropped 200 feet during...
Author: Abram I. Bohrer
Flightinjury.com is investigating the crash of an Airbus A300 Cargo Jet while landing at Monterrey Airport, Monterrey, Mexico
April 15, 2010
At least six people, five crew, and a person on the ground, have been confirmed dead in the crash of a loaded Airbus A300 which was attempting to land late Tuesday night. The Airbus A300 was trying to...
NTSB Releases 2009 Aviation Accident Statistics
April 13, 2010
NTSB RELEASES 2009 AVIATION ACCIDENT STATISTICS; ON-DEMAND ACCIDENTS AT LOWEST LEVEL IN LAST 20 YEARS Washington, D.C. – The National Transportation Safety Board today released preliminary aviation accident statistics...
April 8, 2010 (flight injury.com – Aviation Accidents, Injury News, Wrongful Death) A Philadelphia jury awarded $89 million to one survivor and the estates of three passengers killed in a 1999 Ohio plane crash. The jury...
A plane crash that killed four people and injured Blink 182 drummer Travis Barker was caused by under-inflated tyres, investigators have said. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) also said a design flaw in the...
NY Thruway Crash Injures 17
April 7, 2010
Seventeen people were hurt in a crash on the Thruway Wednesday morning around 4:30 a.m. It happened in the eastbound lanes near the Manchester exit, Exit 43. State Police say the box of a dump truck driven by John Hoey, 49 of...
Tennessee Air Ambulance Crash Leaves Three Dead
March 25, 2010
A medical helicopter crash near Brownsville, TN has left three people dead. The chopper went down during a severe storm this morning. A witness told the Haywood County Sheriff’s Department that he saw what he thought...
Pilot Error Caused 2008 Air Ambulance Crash: NTSB
March 17, 2010
CHICAGO (AP) — The National Transportation Safety Board’s final report on the fatal 2008 crash of a medical transport helicopter in Aurora says the pilot’s preflight planning was inadequate and he was flying too...
Jogger Killed by Aircraft Making Emergency Landing
March 16, 2010
HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. — A freak aviation accident has claimed the life of a pharmaceutical salesman out for a jog while on a business trip. Officials say Robert Gary Jones of Woodstock, Ga., was struck by a...
NASA CRASH TESTS HELICOPTER: WATCH IT HERE
March 16, 2010
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/16/nasa-helicopter-crash-a-s_n_500456.html...
