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Ethiopian Air Flight 409 Tumbled Out of Sky On Take Off From Lebanon

The crash of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 409 that went down off the coast of Lebanon is still under investigation.

Ethiopian Airline Flight 409 Flight Data Recorder Located

The Flight Data Recorder (also known as the “Black Box” or “FDR”) of Ethiopian Airline Flight 409 that crashed off the coast of Lebanon, has been located.

Fort Campbell Helicopter Crash in CO Blamed on Pilot Error

Four Fort Campbell soldiers died when their Black Hawk helicopter crashed during a training mission on Mount Massive in Colorado. Investigators cited human error as the cause of the crash.

Ethiopian Airlines Flight 409 Crashes on Takeoff in Lebanon

Ethiopian Airlines Flight 409 crashed of the coast of Lebanon in the Mediterranean Sea with 90 people on board.

Piper Crash at Memphis International on November 29, 2009 Pilot Error or Some Unknown Cause?

A pilot was fatally injured and three passengers received serious injuries when their plane crashed while landing at Memphis International Airport (MEM), Memphis, Tennessee on November 29, 2009.

Report on Aviation Disasters Involving Civilians on Government Aircraft

This report contains information on how to better assist families following the loss of a loved one in an aviation disaster involving a government owned or operated aircraft. The aftermath of a plane crash is an extraordinarily painful time for the families of the passengers on board. The shock and sense of loss felt by families of passengers who are killed is incalculable. In a memorandum issued on September 9, 1996, President Clinton recognized that the Federal government bears responsibility for addressing the needs of these families.

FAA Watching American Airlines Closely After Botched Landings

The FAA has heightened its scrutiny of American Airlines after three incidents involving the carrier between December 13 and December 24.

American Airlines Flight 331 Crashes in Jamaica

American Airlines flight 331 left the runway in Kingston, Jamaica, crashing through a sand bank stopping a few feet from the Caribbean Ocean.

Keith Williams Tennessee aviation Attorney Files Suit in Helicopter Crash Case

Tennessee aviation attorney, Keith Williams filed a lawsuit involving the crash of a Robinson 44 helicopter.  The lawsuit alleges that the helicopter was not airworthy and was manufactured in a dangerous and defective condition.  

Sparta TN Bound Plane Crashes Outside Atlanta

A Sparta TN bound twin engine Cessna airplane crashed shortly after takeoff from Gwinnett County Airport, outside Atlanta.  The pilot and one person on the ground in Lawrenceville, GA were killed. 

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Keith Williams Tennessee Aviation Attorney Files $40 Million Suit Over Helicopter Crash

Keith Williams Tennessee Aviation Attorney Files $40 Million Suit Over Helicopter Crash.

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Delta Flight Lands on Taxiway Instead of Runway in Atlanta

Delta Airline's flight 60, from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport landed was cleared to land on Runway 27R but landed instead on Taxiway M, which runs parallel to the runway.  The flight had 194 passengers and crew on board.

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Helicopter Crash Kills Ft. Campbell Soldiers

A MH-60 Blackhawk Helicopter crashed in Colorado killing four Fort Campbell-based Delta Company, 1st Battalion, 160^th Special Operations Aviation Regiment members. The soldiers were killed while conducting mountain and environmental training near  Mount Massive. Those killed in Wednesday's crash were Chief Warrant Officers 4 Terrance Geer, 40, of Casper, Wyo.; and Robert Johnson, 41, of Seattle; and Staff Sargents Paul Jackson, 33, of Lancaster, Md., and Chad Tucker, 28, of Titusville, Fla.

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Middle Tennessee Pilot Injured In Smyrna TN Airport Crash

The crash of a small private plane at the Smyrna, TN airport has left a Middle Tennessee man in stable but guarded condition. 

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Hudson River Crash Results In FAA Suspending Two Air Traffic Controllers

Two air traffic controllers in Newark, New Jersey were suspended by the FAA following an in air collision of a small Piper Airplane and a sightseeing helicopter.  . The controllers have been placed on administrative leave and disciplinary proceedings have begun. 

The National Transportation Safety Board and FAA are further investigating this matter to determine the contributing factors before releasing any specific conclusions drawn from their investigation.

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Southwest Flight 2294 - Williams Law Group Retained by Two Families

Two families have retained B. Keith Williams to further investigate the circumstances surounding the near tragic incident of Southwest Flight 2294. 

Southwest flight 2294 was traveling from Nashville, TN to Baltimore, MD when the passengers were forced to experience a life-changing event.  The Boeing 737-300 made an emergence landing in Charleston, WV after an explosive and sudden decompression of the cabin while at 34,000 feet. This sudden cabin decompression was caused when the fuselage ripped open forming a 17 inch hole near the rear of the airplane.

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Aria Airlines Flight 1525 Crashes Killing 16 - Injuring 21

Another Russian-made airliner, Aria Airlines flight 1525,  skidded off the runway in Mashhad, Iran and caught fire as it made a hard landing.  Sixteen people were killed in this Iranian commercial plane crash.  Twenty One passengers were injured in the crash.

It was the nation's second deadly plane accident in two weeks.  Caspian Flight 7908 crashed less than two weeks prior near Qazvin in North Eastern Iran, claiming 168 lives. 

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Iranian Caspian Flight 7908 – Williams Law Group Retained by Surviving Family

The aviation attorneys of Williams Law Group have been retained by one of the surviving family members of the commercial aviation crash of Caspian Airlines Flight 7908 that occurred in Iran. 

Caspian Airlines Flight 7908 crashed outside the city of Qazvin in north-western Iran, on 15 July 2009, killing all 168 aboard.  The fatal crash marks the 57^th loss of a Russian built Tupolev Tu-154 and the 5^th crash of this aircraft type in Iran. 

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Plane Crash Takes the Life of Mt. Juliet TN Man

James Michael Bowers, 46, of Mt. Juliet , TN was flying a single engine airplane from Tennessee to Wisconsin when it crashed in Wabash County, IL. 

Bowers was solo piloting a 1941 Luscombe vintage single-engine airplane to an experimental aircraft show in Oshkosh, WI.  He was the only person on board and died upon impact. 

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Iranian Plane Crash Kills 16 Injures 21

Aria Airlines Flight 1525 from Tehran, slid off the runway during an emergency landing killing 16 people and injuring 21.  The front end of the plane was sheared off and caught fire after the hard landing at the Mashhad airport in eastern Iran.

The aircraft was another Russian made aircraft making it the second Iranian commercial airline crash in two weeks.  This points to the poor state of repair of the Iranian commercial airline fleet.  

Iranian Plane Crash Black Boxes Recovered

Caspian Airlines' flight 7908 "black boxes" have been recovered.  The Russian made, Tupolev 154M jet crashed 16 minutes after takeoff in northern Iran while in route to Armenia.  All 168 aboard were killed.

The so called "black boxes" include the aircraft's cockpit voice recorder (CVR) and the flight data recorders (FDR).  The CVR and the FDRs will be key in determining the cause of the crash which remains unknown.  CVRs and the FRDs  are built to survive crashes and intense fires such as this one.  They record a plane's performance, such as air speed and altitude, as well as communications between the cockpit crew and with air traffic controllers on the ground. 

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Plane Crash Kills All 168 On Board

 

A commercial airliner has crashed killing all 168 on board.  The fatal crash occurred in Northern Iran when a Russian-made Tupolevs jet flying inder the name of Caspian Airlines was heading from Tehran to the Armenian capital Yerevan.   The 168 included 153 passengers and 15 crewmembers.   

Caspian Airlines is a Russian-Iranian joint venture.  The venture was started in 1993.   

Iran has frequent plane crashes often because of bad maintenance of its aging aircraft.   In February 2006, a Russian-made TU-154 operated by Iran Airtour, which is affiliated with Iran's national carrier, crashed during landing in Tehran, killing 29 of the 148 people on board.

Another   In another deadly crash a Airtour Tupolev crashed in 2002 in the mountains of western Iran, killing all 199 on board.  

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Nashville Commercial Airline Flight Makes Emergency Landing

A commercial airline flight from Nashville, TN was forced to make an emergency landing after the cabin suddenly depressurized, deploying cabin oxygen masks.  The Southwest Airlines, Boeing 737 was in route from Nashville to Baltimore and made the emergency landing in Charleston, WV after a football-sized hole formed in the rear of the fuselage forward of the vertical stabilizer.  There were no injuries.

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Airline Safety – Should Passengers Be Concerned

In the wake of several major commercial plane crashes, many people are concerned more than ever about commercial air travel safety.  There were twice as many major plane crashes in the first six months of 2008, but so far in 2009, commercial airliner crashes have claimed five times as many lives as the previous year.  Almost 400 people have died in major airline disasters so far in 2009.

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