Last month, a Southwest Airlines plane and a Learjet came about 287 feet laterally close to each other, barely managing to avoid a collision at Chicago’s Midway International Airport.  The incident which occurred on December 1 was likely the result of air traffic controller error. This incident is the latest in a series of near-miss [...]

In December, the Federal Aviation Administration announced new rules aimed at combating the problem of pilot fatigue.  The new rules do contain some proposals that California plane crash lawyers have been calling for, but fall short of a complete and targeted program to eliminate the problem of fatigue and its role in plane crashes. According [...]

US Airways calls it the latest tactic used by labor groups to gain the upper hand in contract negotiations, but California plane crash lawyers choose to see it differently.  The US Airline Pilots Association, the labor union of US Airways, has taken out a full-page ad in USA Today, claiming that the airline tried to [...]

The Federal Aviation Administration has stopped short of overhauling current air traffic controller work schedules as California plane crash lawyers might have liked.  Instead, the Federal Aviation Administration is recommending that air traffic controllers use other methods, like reading books and listening to the radio to stay alert while on duty. Air traffic controller fatigue [...]

There’s never been a commercial airline crash caused by a person shining a blinding laser light into an aircraft, but the Federal Aviation Administration is not taking any chances.  The agency is likely to soon seek charges against persons who shine a laser beam into aircraft. According to the Federal Aviation Administration, the incidence of [...]

The crash of a police helicopter in the United Kingdom was caused not by the kind of plane crash factors that California plane crash attorneys usually come across, like pilot fatigue or equipment malfunctioning, but by the fragile emotional state of the pilot.  The pilot had suffered a bereavement in the family just a few [...]

The Federal Aviation Administration has been scrambling to revise airport safety procedures in the wake of a much-publicized incident last week, involving an air traffic controller at Washington’s Reagan National Airport who dozed off while on duty.  Two planes had to land without any input from the air traffic controller.  The controller was the only [...]

Southwest Airlines grounded dozens of planes last week and canceled hundreds of flights, as it began a massive inspection of most of its Boeing 737-300 airplanes following a scary cracked-fuselage incident aboard a flight from Phoenix to Sacramento.  The inspection has already yielded cracks in at least three Southwest Airlines planes. The incident occurred over [...]

Investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board have begun studying the wreckage of the deadly plane crash at Long Beach Airport last week that killed five people.  The wreckage has been taken to a facility in Palmdale, where investigators have begun their analysis. The wreckage of the plane, which was owned by one of the [...]

The mother of a 17-year-old girl, who was killed in a police helicopter crash, has filed a lawsuit against the Federal Aviation Administration.  The lawsuit alleges that the agency’s air traffic controllers gave the pilot wrong information about the weather, and that this contributed to the crash. The lawsuit does not seek any specified amount [...]