The survivors of four family members who were killed when a Marine Corps jet slammed into their home in San Diego were awarded $17.8 million by a judge Wednesday, according to The Los Angeles Times. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/12/us-to-pay-178-million-to-family-killed-in-military-jet-crash.html In California U.S. Disrict Court Judge…
Holiday season airplane crashes have destroyed at least two families this year. It has not been a very merry time. Last month at Thanksgiving a pilot, his three children, and an aircraft mechanic died when their plane crashed into the Superstition Mountains…
It didn’t take long for the public to start squawking about the prospect of being banned from using their cellphones, or texting, while driving. The Associated Press Thursday did a long story about salesmen and attorneys who are livid that…
A pilot was killed, but his passenger survived, a plane crash just a half-mile from Scottsdale Airport in Arizona Thursday morning, according to The Arizona Republic. http://www.azcentral.com/community/nephoenix/articles/2011/12/15/20111215plane-crashes-phoenix-neighborhood-near-scottsdale-airport.html The Cirrus SR22 was about to land when it went down in a residential…
Following its meeting Tuesday, the National Transportation Safety Board called for the first national ban on the use of cellphones, as well as texting, by motorists. The safety recommendation against driver use of personal electronic devices (PEDs) specifically calls for the 50…
U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood delivered some good news last Thursday, and part of it was that federal officials are improving their methods to collect data related to distracted driving. The first good news was that updated 2010 fatality and injury…
One of the three people killed in an air ambulance crash in the Chicago area Monday died of a heart attack, not injuries from the crash, The Chicago Tribune reported Thursday. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-autopsy-finds-patient-on-plane-died-of-heart-attack-not-crash-20111201,0,2795634.story An autopsy found that John Bialek’s cause of death was coronary artherosclerosis,…
Federal safety investigators are combing the scene of a plane crash on an Arizona cliff to find clues to determine what happened, according to The Arizona Republic. http://www.azcentral.com/community/pinal/articles/2011/11/25/20111125arizona-superstition-mountains-plane-crash-answers.html The National Safety Transportation Board is collecting scattered wreckage from the plane, which slammed into a…
Six people, including three children, were killed when their small plane crashed into the Superstition Mountains outside Phoenix Wednesday night as they were making a Thanksgiving trip, according to The Arizona Republic. http://www.azcentral.com/community/pinal/articles/2011/11/24/20111124arizona-plane-crash-update.html Investigators haven’t determined what caused the dreadful crash,…
It almost sounds comical, like a scene from the “Animal House” movie. But it was tragic instead. On Saturday a truck hauling beer kegs lost control during a tailgate party before the Yale-Harvard game in New Haven, Conn. One woman,…