Flight attendants sue over profit-sharing 
By:
Associated Press
Published: March 4, 2011
Tags: aircraft, union
Six flight attendants for Delta Air Lines Inc. are suing the airline because their profit-sharing checks were smaller due to a union dispute.
Phila. jury awards $89 million in plane crash
By:
Pat Murphy
Published: April 7, 2010
Tags: aircraft, product liability
A Philadelphia Common Pleas Court jury awarded $89 million Tuesday to family members of passengers killed in a Youngstown, Ohio, plane crash and a survivor, finding that the manufacturer of the plane’s engine had concealed information about a faulty carburetor that caused the crash.
$15 million settlement in plane crash death
By:
Pat Murphy
Published: September 4, 2009
Tags: aircraft, wrongful death
An Illinois judge has approved a $15 million settlement in a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of a Chicago restaurant executive killed in a private plane crash in 2006.
Iowa jury awards $11.4M in helicopter crash
By:
Pat Murphy
Published: July 15, 2009
Tags: aircraft, helicopter
A film producer and a cameraman’s widow both won multimillion-dollar lawsuits Monday against a pilot who crashed a helicopter into power lines during production of an eastern Iowa baseball movie.
Aircraft maker, trainer ordered to pay $16.4M after fatal crash
By:
Pat Murphy
Published: June 8, 2009
Tags: aircraft, product liability
A jury in Grand Rapids, Minn., has ordered aircraft maker Cirrus Design Corp. of Duluth and a flight training subcontractor to pay $16.4 million in damages in connection with a 2003 Minnesota plane crash that killed two Grand Rapids men. Click here for the full article from The Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune.
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