The household of a married father of three killed within the Washington, DC aircraft crash final month is looking for $250 million within the first authorized motion filed towards the Federal Aviation Administration and the Military in connection to the air catastrophe.
A high-profile aviation legislation agency filed the declare Tuesday on behalf of the household of Casey Crafton, who was killed together with 63 different folks aboard an American Airways flight that collided with an Military Black Hawk helicopter on Jan. 29.
“Casey was an incredible human being. He was a giver, a loving husband, and father,” lawyer Bob Clifford with the Chicago-based Clifford Regulation Workplaces stated in a Tuesday assertion.
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“He enjoyed coaching his boys on their youth soccer and Little League baseball teams. They will be grieving him for the rest of their lives that will never be the same,” stated Clifford.
The lawyer stated Crafton’s household “deserves answers about what happened to their loved one.”
Tuesday’s submitting marked the primary authorized motion towards the FAA and the Military over the collision, which additionally claimed the lives of all three troopers on the Black Hawk.
Crafton, a father of three married to his spouse of 16 years, earned his bachelor’s of science in aviation administration at Bob Jones College in South Carolina.
He was aboard the American flight on his approach house from a enterprise journey in Kansas, the place he was working as a technical help supervisor at Guardian Jet, an aviation consulting agency.
Tuesday’s filings are required for pre-case claims towards the federal authorities on high of separate filings for proof preservation following the crash.
Clifford Regulation Workplaces cited a report from the Nationwide Transportation Security Board stating that staffing within the management tower at Washington-Reagan Nationwide Airport was “not normal” on the time of the crash and that there have been communication difficulties between the tower and the American flight.
The air management tower at Reagan Airport has been understaffed for years. There’s solely a complete of 19 licensed controllers as of September 2023, regardless of the FAA and controllers’ union’s staffing goal purpose of at the very least 30 controllers.
Virginia senators warned towards rising the flight site visitors at Reagan Airport in June, citing a staggering improve in near-miss incidents.
