NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Aviation attorney Keith Williams is publicly backing the Federal Aviation Administration’s decision to immediately ground all McDonnell Douglas MD-11 and DC-10 aircraft following last week’s catastrophic crash at the UPS air hub in Louisville, Kentucky. On November 4, a 1991 MD-11 lost its left engine during takeoff, sparking a wing fire and crashing near the [...]
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Aviation attorney Keith Williams of The Keith Williams Law Group is urging federal investigators to review maintenance and inspection records following last Monday’s fiery crash of a UPS cargo plane shortly after takeoff from Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport. The McDonnell Douglas MD-11F, bound for Honolulu, reportedly carried 26,000 gallons of fuel when it went down just after 5 p.m. local time. As [...]
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Aviation attorney Keith Williams said it is wise to reserve judgment until the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) can determine what caused a medical helicopter to crash. On November 8, 2025, a LifeFlight helicopter carrying three people left from a helipad near the Music City Executive Airport in Gallatin, Tennessee, when it [...]
Cade Barker / cade@thereflector.com Keith Williams, a prominent aviation attorney, said a final result in the investigation into the plane crash at Goheen Airport in September could take 18 months. Now that timeline isn’t out of the ordinary, but Williams explained the report process by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has changed since the [...]
Cade Barker / cade@thereflector.com The Clark County Medical Examiner has identified the pilot of the plane that crashed at Goheen Airport north of Battle Ground in late September as Kenneth Shaffer, 76, of Trout Lake. Click Here to read the Article
NASHVILLE, TENN. — A prominent aviation attorney is calling on the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) to scrutinize maintenance records after a deadly small-plane crash in Battle Ground, Washington — a case the NTSB has so far been unable to explain. The crash, which killed the lone pilot on board a Cessna Skyhawk on September 26, [...]
NASHVILLE, TENN. — A nationally recognized aviation attorney is raising serious concerns about a fatal crash near Centennial Airport, questioning whether the single-engine aircraft was properly inspected before takeoff — and why the engine failed mid-flight without warning. The crash, which occurred on September 5, claimed the lives of both pilots aboard a Beech P35 Bonanza during an instructional [...]
NASHVILLE, TENN. — A well-known Tennessee aviation attorney says federal investigators will be looking closely at both pilot actions and mechanical factors as they try to determine what caused the small plane crash in Franklin, North Carolina that killed three people — including Grammy-winning songwriter Brett James. The crash involved a 2016 Cirrus SR22T, which [...]
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (August 4, 2025) — A prominent Tennessee aviation attorney says passengers injured aboard a Delta flight diverted after severe turbulence may have legal grounds for compensation under international air travel law. Delta Air Lines Flight DL56, en route from Salt Lake City to Amsterdam, experienced violent turbulence shortly after reaching cruising altitude late [...]
NASHVILLE, TENN. (July 31, 2025) — Following the National Transportation Safety Board’s (NTSB) initial hearings into the January 29 mid-air collision that killed 67 people over Washington, D.C., aviation safety attorney Keith Williams is urging the U.S. Army to immediately retire helicopters equipped with outdated altimeters. At the July 30 hearing, NTSB investigators revealed that the Army helicopter [...]
