American lawyers add families to suit in Brazil air crash

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Global Aviation News Article

November 22, 2006

Associated Press, "American lawyers add families to suit in Brazil air crash"

          American attorneys representing families of victims in Brazil's worst air disaster said Wednesday they filed a second lawsuit adding the families of 22 victims to an original lawsuit filed earlier this month. The legal action filed in the Eastern District federal court in Brooklyn, New York cites executive-jet company ExcelAire Service Inc. and its pilots. It also names Honeywell International Inc., saying defective equipment contributed to the crash that killed 154 aboard a Brazilian commercial airliner.
          It repeats most of the same allegations made in the earlier lawsuit filed Nov. 6: that ExcelAire's pilots were flying at the wrong altitude when they collided with Gol Airlines Flight 1907 on Sept. 29. It brings to 32 the number of victims' families taking part in the suit. The suit seeks damages in excess of US$75,000 (€58,200) per victim.
          Lexi Hazam, an attorney with the San Francisco law firm Lief Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, said the new suit includes some modifications reflecting tests carried out by the firm's aviation expert who has since flown a Legacy jet in Europe and found further problems with the design of the transponder, made by Morris Township, New Jersey-based Honeywell. Transponders send out signals alerting air traffic controllers and other aircraft about the location of a plane. The Legacy's transponder stopped working in midflight.

Learn more about the crash of Gol Airlines Flight 1907 and lawsuits filed by the families of victims of the accident.

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