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Day 2 of the NTSB Public Hearing on the November 4, 2025, UPS cargo Boeing MD-11 jet crash that killed 15 and injured 23 more people saw Boeing staff admit that the failed aft pylon spherical bearing should have been categorized as a Principal Structural Element (PSE) during the original MD-11 FAA certification process decades ago. Boeing also admitted that their subsequent Continuing Operational Safety (COS) program failed to identify that PSE deficiency and the…

Boeing’s Safety Review Board (SRB) for the second of 10 prior MD-11 aft pylon bearing failures concluded in 2007 that an undetected aft pylon bearing failure could cause damage to the aft pylon lugs that keep the engine attached to the plane; however, based on information provided at today’s NTSB hearing on the UPS cargo jet crash, Boeing may not have advised the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) or operators of this potentially catastrophic aft pylon…

Bradley M. Cosgrove, partner at Clifford Law Offices in Chicago, who filed the first wrongful death lawsuits in Kentucky regarding the November 2025 crash of a UPS cargo jet, is in attendance on the first day of National Transportation Safety Board hearings alongside some of his clients. “The NTSB’s Preliminary Report and early hours of its Public Hearing show that Boeing, UPS, and ST Aerospace (aircraft maintenance provider for UPS) MD-11 engine pylon structural safety…

The families of several victims who were injured or killed in the November 2025 crash of a UPS cargo jet shortly after takeoff from Louisville, Kentucky, were in attendance at the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) hearing on Tuesday, May 19, 2026, in Washington, D.C., along with dozens of others attending, who were shown videos and photos in the introductory remarks. Many chose to stay in a private room set aside for the grieving families,…

The families of several victims who were injured or killed in the tragic crash of a UPS cargo jet shortly after takeoff on November 4, 2025, from Louisville, Kentucky, will be attending the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) hearings Tuesday May 19 and Wednesday May 20, 2026 in Washington, D.C. The NTSB is expected to call a number of witnesses, including representatives from Boeing, who manufactured the MD-11F cargo jet that crashed into a recycling…

On Tuesday, May 12, 2026, Clifford Law Offices filed three lawsuits on behalf of people who were injured in a horrific gas explosion on May 6 at a west suburban Des Plaines condo near O’Hare Airport. Bradley M. Cosgrove, partner at Clifford Law Offices, filed the lawsuits in Cook County Circuit Court alleging negligence on the part of NICOR gas company and the building management company, Tom Dase Management LLC of Park Ridge, IL. Residents…

Sarah F. King, partner at Clifford Law Offices, led a team of lawyers at the firm that obtained a verdict of $7.25 million on behalf of a 32-year-old woman who underwent a hysterectomy following negligent complications during the procedure and delayed recognition of a postpartum hemorrhage. David F. Jasinski, partner at the firm, and Devin J. Piper, associate, also tried the two-week-long case. The verdict is a record in Cook County for a hysterectomy case,…

Clifford Law Offices, an internationally recognized leader in plaintiffs’ aviation litigation, had its aviation experts create a draft animation (video is below) of the crash of Air Canada Express Flight 8646 and a fire rescue truck at New York’s LaGuardia Airport (LGA) on March 22, 2026, that left two pilots dead and dozens of others injured. “This crash was preventable had everyone been doing their jobs. The air traffic controller obviously cleared the fire truck…

The federal court of appeals in New Orleans on Tuesday, March 31, 2026, denied the petition of families of two crashes of Boeing 737-MAX8 aircraft to move forward with its criminal case against the aircraft manufacturer for violating the federal Crime Victims’ Rights Act (CVRA). In a 10-page per curiam decision by the three-judge Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals panel, the court upheld the dismissal by a federal district court judge in Texas who dismissed…