A 1992 Beechcraft Bonanza airplane crash landed at Ocala International Airport. The pilot claims the plane lost power, and the the landing gear of the plane collapsed on touchdown. The pilot was flying the Beechcraft plane from Bradenton Florida to West Virginia (WV) when he made the emergency landing, according to myfoxorlando.com. The pilot escaped…
In his latest post to our firm’s Newport News, VA Car & Truck Accident Injury blog, my colleague John C. welcomes both the news that the Newport News, Richmond and Norfolk airports have had no reported incidents of air traffic controllers falling asleep on the job and new rules from the Federal Aviation Administration aimed…
A brother and sister lost their lives at the Chesapeake Regional Airport on Sunday, April 3, 2011, when their Lancair IV high-performance single-propeller plane crashed shortly after taking off and experiencing engine trouble. The man was an Army helicopter test pilot who had bought the plane used in 2008. According to the Virginian-Pilot, “James Lawrence…
James Stidfole of Yorktown, Virginia (VA), and Teresa Hill of Virginia Beach were killed in a plane crash just after takeoff from the Chesapeake Regional Airport. They were brother and sister, and both were only in their early 40s. My deepest sympathies go out to their family. Losing a loved one in a sudden accident…
In his latest post to our firm’s Railroad Accident/FELA Lawyers blog, my colleague Rick Shapiro expresses alarm at the high number of DC Metro rail yard crashes during the first three months of 2011. Rick notes that several Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority employees have been killed and severely injured on the job since 2009….