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New Piper Aircraft Company
Osteen, FL: (Jun-11-07) A personal injury lawsuit was filed against the New Piper Aircraft Company, after a Piper Malibu JetProp Conversion aircraft crashed on June 14, 2002, killing an 86-year-old female. The lawsuit was filed by her son, age 61. The suit stated that the plane crashed due to the fact that the pilot flew it into a level 4 storm despite having on board weather radar. The pilot was flying too fast through the areas of these storms when he should have been at maneuvering speed so as not to over stress the airframe and cause it to fall apart. It claimed that the right wing became detached due to over stress conditions at 26,000 feet and it plummeted to the ground in a death spiral, killing the octogenarian. The aviation company agreed to a $1.1 million settlement to end the wrongful death suit.
[INJURY BOARD: STORM PLANE CRASH]
Published on Jun-12-07
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"pilot was flying too fast through the areas of these storms"
"The aviation company agreed to a $1.1 million settlement"
"The National Transportation Safety Board determines the probable cause(s) of this accident as follows:
the pilot's inadequate weather evaluation and his failure to maintain control of the airplane after entering an area of thunderstorms
resulting in an in-flight separation of the right wing and right horizontal stabilizer and impact with the ground during an uncontrolled
descent."
http://www.ntsb.gov/_layouts/ntsb.aviation/GeneratePDF.aspx?id=MIA02FA111&rpt=fi
Everything about this event is pointing at pilot error. Why was Piper paying a claim when it is clearly the pilots fault?