AT HOME AND ABROAD

A 2017 Perspective on the Worldwide Resolution of

Aviation Claims

Moderated by Marc S. MollerJanuary 19, 2017

So What’s New???

George Tompkins, Jr.

CHINA

Armando Carlo

BOEING

Dr. Peter Urwantschky

The Man From Europe

Brian Alexander

Kreindler & Kreindler

A TIMELINE OFAIR CRASHES

June 15, 1785Two Frenchmen attempting to cross the English Channel in a hot-air balloon were killed when their balloon caught fire and crashed, in possibly the first fatal aviation accident.

May 6, 1937

The Hindenburg Disaster

1970Oct. 2, A plane carrying the Wichita State Univ. football team crashed near Silver Plume, Colorado, killing 29 passengers as well as the Captain and Flight Attendant.

Nov. 14, The Marshall Univ. football team of Huntington, WV, was wiped out in air crash of a Southern Airways DC-9 at Kenova, WV. All 75 people on board were killed.

December 29, 1972

Eastern Airlines Flight 401, a Lockheed Tri-Star Jumbo Jet carrying 176 people, crashed into the Florida Everglades. 75 people survived. The crash was blamed on the crew's preoccupation with a landing gear light.

March 3, 1974

A Turkish Airlines DC-10 crashed shortly after takeoff from OrlyAirport in Paris and 346 people were killed. It was the worst air disaster to date.

June 24, 1975In New York 113 people were killed when an Eastern Airlines Boeing 727 crashed while attempting to land during a thunderstorm at John F. Kennedy International Airport. The crash was attributed to a microburst, not experienced at the control tower because of a sea breeze front.

1979May 25, 273 people died in America's worst domestic air disaster when an American Airlines DC-10 crashed during takeoff at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport. The left engine was lost on takeoff. 3 of the dead were on the ground.

Nov 25, American Airlines DC-10 crashed on takeoff from Chicago and 275 people were killed.

January 13, 1982

An Air Florida 737 crashed into the Capital's 14th Street Bridge after takeoff and fell into the Potomac River, killing 78.

September 1, 1983

KAL Flight 007 was downed by a Soviet jet fighter after the airliner entered Soviet airspace. 269 people were killed aboard the Boeing 747 including sixty-one Americans.

November 15, 1987

Twenty-eight of 82 people aboard a Continental Airlines DC-9, including the pilot and co-pilot, were killed when the jetliner crashed seconds after taking off from Denver's Stapleton International Airport.

December 21, 1988Pan Am Flight 103 was downed over Lockerbie, Scotland by a terrorist bomb. 270 people were killed aboard the Boeing 747. Libya was accused of responsibility for the bombing, which killed 259 people onboard and 11 on the ground.

July 19, 1989

In Iowa 112 people were killed when a United Air Lines DC-10 crashed while making an emergency landing at Sioux City. 184 other people survived.

February 1, 1991

A US-Air jetliner crashed atop a commuter turboprop plane while landing at Los Angeles International Airport. 34 people were killed.

March 22, 1992

Twenty-seven people were killed when a USAir jetliner crashed on takeoff from New York's La Guardia Airport. 24 people survived.

1994July 2, USAir DC-9 Flight 1016 crashed in poor weather at Charlotte-Douglas Int’l Airport in North Carolina, killing 37 of the 57 people aboard.

Sept. 8, US Air Flight 427 from Chicago, a Boeing 737, crashed 6 minutes before it was due to land at Pittsburgh Int’l. Airport killing all 132 people onboard.

December 20, 1995An American Airlines Boeing 757, Flight 965, crashed into a mountain near Cali, Columbia with 164 people on board while enroute from Miami. Four survivors were reported. It was later reported that pilots had entered an incorrect code for the approach to Cali.

May 11, 1996

A ValuJet DC-9 with 110 people onboard caught fire and crashed in the Florida Everglades shortly after takeoff from Miami Int’l. airport. In 2000 an $11 million penalty was ordered against SabreTech, a Miami repair facility, that had loaded hazardous oxygen generators onto the plane.

July 17, 1996

TWA Flight 800 crashed off of Long Island, N.Y., shortly after leaving John F. Kennedy International Airport and 230 people died. In 1997 the FBI issued a report that the disaster was caused by an explosion in the central fuel tank and was not the result of sabotage.

August 6, 1997Korean Air Flight 801 from Seoul, a Boeing 747-300 jumbo jet, crashed into a hillside a short distance from Guam’s Agana Int’l. Airport killing 228 with 26 survivors. A programming glitch in the ground radar system was later identified as a contributing factor but not the cause.

MAJOR AIRCRASH TIMELINE2007 – 2016

2007

Sulawesi, Indonesia Boeing 737 102 deadCameroon Boeing 737 114 deadSao Paulo, Brazil Airbus 320 199 deadPhuket, Thailand MD-82 87 deadKeciborlu, Turkey MD-83 56 dead

2008

Madrid, Spain MD-82 154 deadBishkek, Kyrgyzstan Boeing 737 68 deadPerm, Russia Boeing 737 88 dead

2009

Buffalo, NY Bombardier Q-400 50 dead*Amsterdam, Netherlands Boeing 737 9 deadJava, Indonesia C-130 Hercules 97 deadAtlantic Ocean (Air France) Airbus 330 228 deadComoros Islands Airbus 310 152 deadQazvin, Iran Tupolev Tu-154M 168 dead

2010

Somlensk, Russia Tupolev 154 96 deadTripoli, Libya Airbus 330 103 deadMangalore, India Boeing 737 158 deadKarachi, Pakistan Airbus 321-231 152 deadCentral Cuba ATR 72 68 dead

2011

Orumiyeh, Iran Boeing 727-286 77 deadDem. Rep. Congo Boeing 727-30 74 deadGeulmim, Morocco C-130 Hercules 78 dead

2012

Ismalabad, Pakistan Boeing 737 127 deadLagos, Nigeria MD-83 163 dead

2013

Pakse, Laos ATR 72-600 49 deadKazan, Russia Boeing 737 50 deadSan Fran, CA (Asiana) Boeing 777 3 dead

2014

Aïn Kercha, Algeria C-130 Hercules 77 deadSouth Indian Ocean Boeing 777-200 239 deadGrabove, Ukraine Boeing 777-200 298 deadPenghu Island, Taiwan ATR 72-500 48 deadGossi, Mail MD-83 116 deadJava Sea Airbus A320-216 162 dead

2015

Digne, France [GW] Airbus A320 148 deadMedan, Indonesia C-130 Hercules 141 deadSharm el-Sheikh, Egypt Airbus 321 224 dead

That was the past.

What is the future?