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Avianca Flight 42: What Severe Turbulence Means for the Injured Passengers Under United States Law
Nine people were hurt early Friday morning when Avianca Flight 42, an Airbus A320 flying overnight from Medellín, Colombia to New York's JFK, hit severe turbulence somewhere north of Cuba and diverted to Miami. One passenger went to a trauma center. Our thoughts are...
Air Ambulance Missing Off Nantucket: How the Law of the Sea Will Shape What Happens Next
What A Twelve-Mile Line in the Water Means for the Families Six people are missing today in the Atlantic south of Nantucket, and their families are waiting on a Coast Guard search that is still underway. Our thoughts are with them, and with the crews from Air Station...
San Diego Montgomery-Gibbs Plane Crash: What the Flight Track Shows
A Cessna 172 similar to N734ZK in the approach-to-landing configuration. Aviation Law Group is deeply saddened by Monday's crash at Montgomery Field (MYF). One of our attorneys spent several years at MYF as a flight instructor, and the people who fly out of that...
What We Know So Far About the Amazon Prime Air Boeing 767 Overrun at Miami International
A first look at the airplane, the operator, the runway, the weather record, and how a 767 stops Analysis by Attorney and Former Commercial Airline Captain and Chief Pilot Christopher Rusing; and by Attorney and Commercial Airline Pilot Brendan Keegan The attorneys at...
Cape Newenham Airport Environment Created A Dangerous “Point Of No Return”
Cape Newenham Airport leaves little room for error. Aviation Law Group examines the treacherous terrain, steep runway, poor visibility, and critical decisions surrounding the August 20 Security Aviation crash in southwest Alaska.
Cessna Conquest Crash Near Cape Newenham: What We Know and the Questions Investigators Must Answer
by Chris Rusing | August 21, 2026 | Accident, Alaska Accident We are saddened to hear about the crash of a chartered Cessna 441 Conquest near Cape Newenham in western Alaska on Thursday, August 20, 2026, which tragically took eight lives. Our thoughts are with the...
Kenmore Air Floatplane Crash Near Sucia Island: What We Know and the Questions Investigators Must Answer
by Aviation Law Group Our hearts are with everyone impacted by Thursday's crash near Sucia Island. For the ten passengers and the pilot aboard Kenmore Air Flight 140, N709KA, what began as an ordinary summer flight over the San Juans became a frightening emergency,...
Delta Flight 56 Lawsuit Alleges Aircraft Flew Into Known Convective Weather With Seatbelt Sign Off
Air traffic control warned the crew that dangerous convective weather was directly ahead. Yet with the seatbelt sign off, and beverage service underway, Flight 56 continued into the storm. Afterward, instead of landing at a closer, more suitable airport, Delta continued to a hub while injured passengers and crew waited for help.
The Butler Skydiving Crash: The Questions That Will Actually Determine What Happened
The skydiving and aviation community lost twelve of our own this month. On the morning of Sunday, June 14, 2026, a single-engine turboprop carrying eleven skydivers and a pilot went down moments after takeoff from Butler Memorial Airport in Butler, Missouri. No one on...