Dr. Joseph Kelly, the pilot operating a single-engine Beechcraft Bonanza P35, crashed into a tree at 24 Warehouse Creek Lane in Edgewater, Maryland (MD). Dr. Kelly died as a result of this aviation accident. The airplane was a four-seater, but he was the only person in the plane, according to firehouse.com. The details of what…
The agency that operates the DC Metro system late last week announced two belated safety upgrades for its aging fleet of rail cars. While the hundreds of thousands of Washington, D.C., Northern Virginia, and Maryland residents who ride Metro every day no doubt welcome the moves from the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, they —…
2008 was one of the deadliest years on record for helicopter crashes . There were 28 deaths and 7 helicopter accidents in the helicopter emergency services industry. Despite this startling trend, there appears to be a general perception in the legal world that helicopter accident lawsuits should not be filed since the odds are stacked against…
In 2009, there were 90 airplane accidents around the world while there were 5.8 million car crashes and 9,789 train wrecks. On the surface, this would indicate airplanes are dramatically safer than cars and trains, which is a legitimate observation. However, the drastic disparity in number of total airplanes in the sky compared to the…
Flight-crew issues were the primary cause of two-thirds of fatal commercial and business plane crashes worldwide from 1997 through 2006, the United Kingdom’s Civil Aviation Authority reported in 2009, according to the denverpost.com. A 2006 Federal Aviation Administration study found that from 1990 to 2002, 45 percent of major airline crashes in the United States…