The live flight track of doomed Luthansa Germanwings Flight 4U 9525, an airbus 320, shows the sudden loss of communcation with air traffic controllers and the plane and pilots. This prompted the controllers to issue a distress call on behalf of the flight. Early reports said that the pilots issued a distress call, but that [...]
Air Traffic Controller states "The screens just went blank" at Heathrow Airport in London Citing first a "computer glitch" and then a power failure at Stanwick Air Control Center near Hampshire, Heathrow Airport has taken the almost unbelievable action of essentially closing down the airspace coming into and departing from the airport except for those [...]
Tennessee Aviation Attorney Keith Williams to Moderate IATSBA Aviation Law Conference in New York Tennessee Aviation Attorney Keith Williams will be serving as Moderator at the IATSBA Air and Transportation Law Conference in New York next week. He and his panel of fellow aviation law attorneys from across the country will be speaking on: Major [...]
Two families have retained Keith Williams to further investigate the circumstances surounding the near tragic incident of Southwest Flight 2294. Southwest flight 2294 was traveling from Nashville, TN to Baltimore, MD when the passengers were forced to experience a life-changing event. The Boeing 737-300 made an emergency landing in Charleston, WV after an explosive and [...]
A fire apparently started in a bathroom in an Aurora Illinois flight control tower, which handles the traffic for both the O'Hare and Midway airports in Chicago. The cause of the fire is unknown as well as what, if any damage, was caused by smoke or fire supression systems in the rest of the building. [...]
The small 7-passenger plane took off around 8am EST from Rochester New York on its way to Naples Florida. Flight control along its route last heard from the pilot about 10am EST. After that, all calls to the pilot went unanswered. The plane continued, apparently on auto pilot, prompting the government to scramble fighter jets [...]
The Smith family are a well-known and respected family in Dickson Tennessee where Danny and Sharon own two businesses, the Dickson Athletic Club and O'Rouke's Irish Pub. So family, friends, patrons and neighbors are understandable shocked and worried about the news that the family and a friend were severely injured in a plane crash in Alabama on their [...]
People in the small town of Bedford in Massachusetts are used to hearing and seeing small planes and private jets take off from Hanscom Field. As they sat around their firepits, finished yardwork, or were preparing supper, they were alarmed by the shaking of houses and people in the neighborhood, particulary children who never seemed to [...]
The pervasiveness of personal media devices in our society, from smart phones to tablets, isn't arguable. They're here and people use them often throughout their day, sometimes compulsively. We hear alot about the dangers of texting while driving. Studies show that people who are texting while driving are less able to navigate through a safety [...]
The FAA has heightened its scrutiny of airline companies after several years in a row of botched landings, hard landings, accidents on the tarmac and even several incidents of landing at the wrong airport. There are several factors that could be at play here including: pilot inexperience; pilot's lack of rest or sleep; over-reliance on [...]