Very substantial six-figure award

A middle-aged man from Fayette County was piloting his Cessna aircraft from Latrobe, PA, to the Chester County Airport outside of Philadelphia. Upon approach to landing at the Chester County Airport, the plane crashed and the pilot and three passengers died. With the help of extensive investigative work by a group of experts, including engineers, pilots and accident reconstructionists, we were able to show that the crash occurred due to a defect in the instructions on how to land the aircraft under certain emergency circumstances that existed at the time. We filed a product liability claim against the manufacturer of the airplane, Cessna, and obtained a very substantial six-figure award on behalf of this man’s widow.