AirLaws Members and Aircraft Accidents
Aviation is a safe undertaking, but like the sea, aviation is
unforgiving of errors. Marvel that, highly technical aircraft products,
flown by varying pilot skill levels, into mobile weather
conditions, and into changing and sometimes hostile environments,
are regularly accomplished safely.
To understand how safe the
situation is all one need do is to look to the insurance industry.
Airline pilots and flight crews have not had to pay added hazardous duty
premiums for their life insurance premiums while plying the
aviation trade. This safety record has come about in the United States
for a multitude of reasons, including the fact that Corporate and
Governmental management and their families all fly regularly. Another
reason is that the pilots who sit in front of the aircraft always get to
the scene of the accident first. Pilots are personally at risk when they
make mistakes.
Unfortunately, tragedies do occur and persons are
hurt and sometimes killed. The unfortunate accident demands an
investigation conducted for several very different reasons. Let it be
said that almost all aviation accidents involve some human error, be it
pilot error, controller error, weather errors, supervisory errors,
training errors or engineering product design errors or
construction errors.
It is a legal precedent in US law that
persons or companies are required to pay damages for the negligent harm
they cause through needless accidents., and
INVESTIGATIONS
Investigations are conducted for three basic reasons
GOVERNMENT
INVESTIGATIONS
The Government conducts investigations for two
reasons. The first reason is to determine if a crime of sabotage or
terrorism has occurred. This is in essence a criminal investigation.
The Government conducts investigations to gather facts, to evaluate
cause of the accident, and to make recommendations for safety that would
lower the risk that an identical accident would re occur. In short they
look for criminal activity and to promote aviation safety in the future.
LEGAL INVESTIGATIONS and EVIDENCE GATHERING
A lawyer is needed
to conduct an investigation to legally help the tragedies victims. It is
a legal precedent in US law that persons or companies are required to
pay damages for the negligent harm they cause through needless
accidents. It is also legal precedent in US law that persons or
companies are required to pay damages for harm their defective product
causes in accidents. The lawyers helps the injured victim or the
families of deceased victims find fault and thereby recover money
damages for the injury or wrongful death.