DC Airplane accident: The first requests filed against the Government are looking for $ 250 million
The high aircraft’s profile company submitted its first legal actions related to the deadly 29 January on Tuesday. Washington, DC plane crash, Searching $ 250 million on behalf of the 16 -year -old widow and her three children who failed in a collision in peace.
Recent Airlines 5342 flight collision Army Sikorsky Uh-60 Black Hawk Over the Potomac River, he killed each person on both aircraft, a total of 67 people, including 40-year-old Casey Crafton from Salema, Connecticut.
“Casey was an incredible human being,” said lawyer Bob Clifford of Chicago based in Clifford in a statement on Tuesday. “He was a donor, dear husband and father. He enjoyed training his boys in their football and small baseball teams. About what happened to their loved one.”
Crafton acquired a bachelor’s degree in aircraft management from Bob Jones University in South Carolina and returned from Wichita in Kansas on a business trip while working as a technical support manager at the Guardian Jet, a consultant aircraft company when the aircraft crashed.
Casey Crafton leaves behind her wife of 16 and their three sons. (CLIFFORD LEGALTHS
It is submitted on Tuesday for the requests for a case against the Federal Government, as well as separate complaints for the preservation of evidence after the deadly collision. Requests in the amount of $ 250 million were filed against the Federal Air Force and the US Army, driven by Black Hawk.
The CLIFFORD’s legal offices cite a report of the National Transport Safety Committee, saying that staff in the control tower at the National Airport (DCA) in Washington-Reagan at the time of the collision “is not normal”, and there were also communication issues between Tower and Flight 5342 .
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FAA told Fox News Digital that he was not commenting waiting for litigation. Fox News Digital also contacted the army for comment.
29 January DC Map of the collision with plane-helicopter.
Staff in Air Control Tower in DCA and “was not normal for the time of day and quantity of traffic,” said in an internal preliminary report on FAA he was reviewing New York Times.
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Controller who was Handling helicopters On the evening of January 29, they also taught planes that landed and left the airport runway, The Times reported. These tasks are usually assigned two controllers.
The crew retrieved the wreckage of the American Airlines 5342 flight in Rijeka Potomac, Washington, DC, January 30, 2025. The plane was involved in a fatal collision with Black Hawk’s helicopter the US Army the previous night. (Leigh Green for Fox News Digital)
The Air Control Tower at Reagan Airport has had sufficient staff with 19 completely certified controllers for years since September 2023, however, the FAA and the controller’s alliance, he invited to 30 controllers in his staff goals.
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Defense Minister Hegsetth said earlier on January 30, “Fox & Friends” that the officers “would reach the bottom of what happened here.”
“It is completely unacceptable in the capital of our country or anywhere. The army trains, and it is training strongly. And we will not stop perfecting, although there is a break on this unit, in this exercise, which is important. And we should have that break We get to the bottom of this, “Hegsetth said. “… we have to train for sure. Something like that cannot happen. And that is completely unacceptable.”
