A Southwest jet headed from Chicago to Newark was forced to land in Cleveland after the exterior glass of a window cracked. No one was hurt but it caused great concern on the part of passengers following a recent death on a Southwest plane where a New Mexico mother was killed when the window that she was seated next to broke open and she was partially sucked out of the plane. She later died from…
A medical helicopter carrying three people crashed in northern Wisconsin Thursday (April 26, 2018) killing all three flight crew members on board. The crash occurred late Thursday night about 150 miles northwest of Green Bay in an unlighted rural area after having dropped off a patient in Madison, Wisconsin. The Ascension Health Spirit helicopter crashed in a heavily wooded area near Hazelhurst, Wisconsin. Kevin P. Durkin, aviation attorney at Clifford Law Offices, spoke to a…
On April 18th, 2018, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) ordered that the CFM56 engines on all aircraft be inspected, expanding its original idea to spot check them, in the wake of the mid air engine incident involving a Southwest Airlines flight that killed a young mother and wife earlier this week. Robert A. Clifford, founder and senior partner at Clifford Law Offices and an outspoken aviation attorney, said these inspections are long overdue considering incidents…
A top aviation attorney is now calling for the grounding of all Boeing 767 aircraft in the wake of the second uncontained engine failure (UEF) of a 17-year-old Southwest Airlines 767 in less than 20 months. Robert A. Clifford, founder and senior partner of Clifford Law Offices in Chicago, represents a number of passengers injured in the fire after a similar UEF on an American Airlines 737 at O’Hare Airport in October, 2016, that forced…
A woman was killed on April 17, 2018 after a jet engine apparently exploded in mid-air and its shrapnel reportedly crashed through her window on a Southwest flight to Dallas. The incident forced the 767 Boeing aircraft, Flight 1380 that had taken off from New York, to emergency land in Philadelphia. Witnesses told the press that they saw the woman passenger being sucked out the broken window with fellow passengers trying to hold her in…
How does an airline run out of deicing fluid in the middle of February in Chicago? That was a question that thousands of people were asking this weekend when Southwest Airlines had to cancel hundreds of flights because it said it ran short of glycol, the fluid necessary to make sure that ice doesn’t build up on the aircraft to make for a safe take-off. Certainly, no one could argue with the necessity of this…
An elderly man from Nigeria visiting his family in Chicago had to spend two nights in the hospital after reportedly being injured by airline employees as he traveled Wednesday from Dubai to O’Hare Airport. The family of 72-year-old David Okesone reportedly unknowingly sat in the wrong seat on the leg of his trip on Flight EK235 from Dubai to Chicago, and his family said when he tried to move his carry-on bag to be with…
Four people are recovering following a plane crash Monday evening at Chicago Rockford International Airport. Two of the people in the plane had to be extricated, including the pilot. All of the injured, including two minors, were taken to local hospitals. Rockford was the plane’s final destination. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) are investigating the cause of the crash. The plane apparently clipped the fencing surrounding the airport…
Clifford Law Offices is one of the nation’s premier aviation law firms. Our aviation accident practice group is among the most experienced in the world. Our firm consistently garners multi-million-dollar settlements and verdicts in aviation litigation. Robert A. Clifford, Founder and Senior Partner at Clifford Law Offices, has represented victims and victim’s families for four decades in nearly every major commercial airline crash in the country. We handle all types of aviation crashes – Commercial…