Court Finds Airline at Fault in Woman's Death
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An airline that forced an elderly woman to check her bag with her medical devices bears responsibility for her subsequent death after losing the bag, a U.S. appeals court ruled on Thursday.
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A state appeals court upheld a &#36;500,000 award to a flight attendant who blamed secondhand smoke on airliners for her bronchitis and sinus trouble &#151; a decision Wednesday that could clear the way for damage trials on up to 3,000 similar claims.
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An Indian court rules against female flight attendants who were grounded from the national airline for being overweight.
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American Airlines Flight 587 lost its tail and plummeted into a New York City neighborhood in November 2001, killing 265 people, because the co-pilot improperly used the rudder
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The co-pilot of an American Airlines  jet that crashed nearly three years ago in New York and killed  265 people lost control of the Airbus plane after mishandling  the rudder, investigators concluded on Tuesday.
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American Airlines Flight 587 lost its tail and plummeted into a New York City neighborhood in November 2001, killing 265 people, because the co-pilot improperly used the rudder to try to steady the plane, federal safety investigators ruled Tuesday.
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A plane crash in Siberia that killed 124 people in July was caused by pilot error, Russian air safety officials conclude.  Russia investigates an air crash which killed 124 people, amid signs that brake failure may have caused it.
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A woman from South Yorkshire dies on a holiday jet as her husband and 12-year-old daughter look on.
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A woman who died after being given an epidural in her arm was unlawfully killed, an inquest jury rules.
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Four employees of a Swiss air traffic control company were convicted of negligent homicide on Tuesday in the 2002 mid-air collision of a passenger plane and cargo jet that killed 71 people &#151; most of them vacationing Russian schoolchildren.
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Families of victims of the Boeing plane crash in which 148 people died in the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh in January have taken legal action in the United States against Boeing and two other US aeronautics firms, their lawyers said.
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Indonesia's Supreme Court convicted a former state airline pilot on Friday in the poisoning death of a prominent human rights activist and sentenced him to 20 years in prison, a court official said.
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Crew error was to blame for a Russian passenger jet crash last year that killed all 170 on board, a Russian transport commission said Saturday.
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An Algerian airline pilot wrongly accused of training the September 11, 2001 hijackers should be allowed to claim compensation, a British court ruled Wednesday.
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The widow of a Navy pilot killed when a Patriot missile hit his plane during the invasion of Iraq in 2003 sued the weapon's producer Raytheon Co. in federal court in Boston yesterday, accusing the company of negligence in the design and manufacture of the renowned air-defense system.
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A woman who denied being on a mobile before a collision is found not guilty of death by dangerous driving but guilty of careless driving.
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The sole survivor of a car wreck that killed six people was a victim, and a judge was wrong to convict her as an accomplice to drunken driving, an appeals court ruled.