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Birds strike a present and significant threat to aircraft safety. They can cause severe damage to the engine of a plane, and have resulted in numerous fatal and non-fatal accidents. New research has shown that birds react poorly to objects moving over 60 mph, a finding scientists say explains the animals’ collisions with airplanes. Methods…
The March 12, 2015, medical helicopter crash near Eufaula, Oklahoma, is the fourth fatal EagleMed helicopter crash in Oklahoma since 2010. “The air medical industry accident rate is soaring and action needs to be taken,” says Ladd Sanger, partner with Slack Davis Sanger. Slack Davis Sanger represented the family of a deceased passenger in an…
A recent petition filed with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration seeks laws requiring an electronic alert and automatic braking system on tractor-trailers and large buses in order to prevent collisions. The petitioners — Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety, the Truck Safety Coalition, the Center for Auto Safety and Road Safe America — support…
The families of two Army servicemen have filed a lawsuit against the engine parts manufacturers for a helicopter crash that occurred outside of Kandahar, Afghanistan. The crash left one soldier dead and the other with severe disabilities. (Slack Davis Sanger’ Ladd Sanger is serving as co-counsel for the plaintiffs.)
“The question is … who did it and how did it happen? We know it was jet fuel, we just need to learn the sequence of events and where the fail-safe systems actually failed,” Slack Davis Sanger aviation attorney told KXLY News in Spokane. His comments came after the February 22 crash of a Piper…
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has proposed regulations for routine use of some unmanned aerial vehicles, commonly known as UAVs or drones. (Summary of regulations.) While saying there are “still more questions than answers about the FAA proposals,” Slack Davis Sanger managing partner Ladd Sanger, who focuses on aviation litigation, called the release of…
Three crashes involving commercial trucks in the Dallas-Fort Worth area in the past nine months have highway drivers afraid and transportation safety experts angry over improper vehicle inspections. All three crashes involved a leaf spring, a part of a truck’s suspension system that helps spread the weight of the load over the vehicle’s chassis and…
In an interview with CNET, Slack Davis Sanger aviation attorney Ladd Sanger commented about the new rules related to UAS (unmanned aerial systems) proposed this week by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). “This latest proposal is actually more workable than what I expected to see as version 1.0 from the FAA,” said Sanger. Read more of…
Transportation deaths in the United States dropped 3.1 percent from 2012 to 2013, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) announced recently. The total counts were 34,678 deaths in 2013 and 35,796 the year before. The NTSB gathered its data from the Department of Transportation and Department of Homeland Security and broke down the statistics by…
Last week’s winter storm held up air travel along the East Coast, with airlines canceling thousands of flights in the region and shutting down operations at some airports for days. Caught in another storm Monday, aviation authorities in the area canceled more than 1,100 additional flights. These widespread cancellations inconvenience travelers and carriers alike but…