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• Approximately 80 percent of all plane crashes occur shortly before or after takeoff or landing due to human error or mechanical failures.
• According to an aviation accident survey of nearly 2,200 plane crashes from 1950 to 2004, the number one cause of aviation accidents is pilot error, which results in 45 percent of accidents. Undetermined causes: 33 percent. Mechanical failure: 13 percent.
• In 2005, there were a total of 1,764 aviation accidents in the United States that resulted in 600 fatalities. Low-level maneuvering of an aircraft was the leading cause of fatal aviation accidents from 1998 to 2004.
• In 2004, more than 70 percent of all plane crashes that ended in serious injury or fatality occurred during a personal flight. General aviation accidents occur more frequently than airline or business aviation accidents.
• The most recent statistics on midair collisions has shown a steady decline. In 2004, there were 10 midair accidents resulting in 10 fatalities compared to 11 collisions in 2003 with 23 deaths.

Some of the most common causes of aviation accidents include:

• pilot error,
• negligence by a flight service employee or air traffic controller,
• faulty equipment or mechanical failure,
• weather,
• and sabotage.
• Violations of Federal Aviation Administration safety regulations and aviation law are also a frequent cause of aviation accidents.

Lawsuit Filed for Michigan Plane Crash

- April 17, 2008

A suit was recently filed on behalf of a man who was killed in a plane crash in Michigan during 2006.

The suit has been filed by two attorneys on behalf of the family of the man who was killed in the accident.

Family Files Suit

The suit was filed last week by the family of Joshua Trainor, 23, who died in the plane crash.

Donald Pagos, one of the attorneys for the Trainor family claims that an unspecified amount of damages have been requested.

Pagos and his partner in the case, Scott Pejic, chose to file the suit in Polk County, IA, since there are no caps on damages for lawsuits in this state.

“The father and mother retained me to file a lawsuit for the wrongful death of their son,” explains Pagos.

Defendants Named in Suit

CPRT Investment Corp. and the estates of John Trewet and Tom Dunphy, who were also killed in the crash, have all been named as defendants in the suit.

CRPT is an air charter for businesses and Trewet served as the officer and shareholder of the company.

Dunphy was the president of the company where Trainor worked.

Lawsuit Claims

The suit claims that Dunphy negligently chartered the plane because the pilot was not licensed to carry passengers.

The pilot was also not licensed to work with the instruments that were required under the weather conditions at the time of the crash, says the suit.

(Source: The News Dispatch)

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