Aviation

A brand-new Boeing 737-800 aircraft crashed Monday (Oct. 29, 2018) into the Java Sea shortly after takeoff from Jakarta, Indonesia. Lion Air Flight 610 had just taken off when three minutes into the flight the pilot requested to return to the airport. It was at an altitude of about 5,200 feet. Although the flight reportedly was cleared to return, the aircraft plunged into the sea minutes later. The National Search and Rescue Agency conducted an…

Emirates Flight 203 from Dubai had to be quarantined at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York for several hours Wednesday morning (Sept. 5, 2018) after reporting that dozens of people felt ill. Emergency vehicles and medical personnel met the plane on the runway when it landed. The plane sat on the runway for hours as medical personnel assessed each of the 520 people aboard the commercial airliner. At least 19 people were confirmed sick…

Observers are saying it was nothing short of a miracle when all 103 aboard an Aeromexico flight survived the crash of Flight AM2431 Tuesday, July 31, 2018. Investigators have located the black boxes of the jet that was flying from Guadalupe Victoria International Airport in Durango to Mexico City when it crashed in stormy weather about 4 p.m. Mexico time. All aboard the Embraer 190 jetliner were able to escape, some with very serious injuries,…

A medical helicopter reportedly crashed on Chicago’s South Side Saturday (July 7, 2018) about 9:15 p.m., injuring four people, including a patient in critical condition who was on board. Investigators from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) are looking into the crash that occurred in a grassy area just off where Interstate 94 and Interstate 57 merge near Chicago’s Fernwood neighborhood. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has been notified. Chicago Fire Deputy District Chief Walter…

Clifford Law Offices, a nationally recognized aviation firm, is actively giving legal counsel to many passengers who were aboard the ill-fated Southwest Airlines flight that led to the death of a young mother and wife when the window was smashed, partially sucking her out of the plane. Part of the engine of Flight 1380 snapped apart on April 17, crashing into the window of Row 14 and breaking it open, which caused the aircraft to…

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…