Helicopter Case Related to Shuttle Search

Slack & Davis represents the family of a Texas forest ranger who died in the crash of a Bell 4O7 helicopter while searching for debris from the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster this Spring.

In another case involving a Bell 407, we represent the family of a Texas pilot who had to make an emergency landing into the Gulf of Mexico after the helicopter lost power en route to an oil rig. The helicopter quickly rolled and inverted. Although the pilot and four passengers managed to get out, the pilot and one passenger did not survive.

Airplane tragedies

A young man from Mississippi was following in his father’s footsteps, training to become a professional pilot. The youth enrolled in a degreed flight program in Arizona but was killed during flight training. Our firm represents his family.

We also represent the family of a young Bolivian woman who was badly injured when a Cessna 182 crashed during a night instrument approach to Fayetteville, Ark., where she was a student. Rescue personnel searched in the fog, talking to the pilot by cell phone to pinpoint the location based on nearby sounds. The pilot and other passengers survived, but sadly the young woman did not.

In another case, Slack & Davis represents the family of a commercially-rated pilot and instructor who was killed when his Beech Bonanza suddenly lost power and crashed during a cross-country flight.

Finally, our firm represents a mother who lost her daughter in a horrifying mid-air crash of two Cessna airplanes near Deerfield Beach, Florida. After colliding, both planes crashed into the Atlantic. The pilots and three passengers died.

“Our goal in every air crash case is to help determine the cause of the crash and prevent it from happening again,” said Rusty Allman, aviation attorney.