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Aviation Law Attorneys | Lawyers: Lieff Global attorneys have represented families of loved ones who died in the following aviation accidents*:

	2007 TAM Airlines crash in Brazil;
	2007 Garuda Airlines crash in Indonesia;
	2007 Adam Air crash in Indonesia;
	2006 Gol Airlines crash in the Amazon, Brazil.
	2006 Comair Bombardier CRJ-100 crash in Lexington, Kentucky;
	2006 S7 Airlines Airbus A310 crash in Irkutsk, Siberia;
	2005 West Caribbean Airways McDonnell Douglas MD-82 crash near La Cucharita, Venezuela;
	2005 Helios Airways Boeing 737 crash near Athens, Greece;
	2005 Manhattan tourist helicopter crash in New York City, New York;
	2005 Turbine Legend crash in Tucson, Arizona;
	2005 Mandala Airlines Boeing 737-200 crash in Medan, Indonesia;
	2004 China Yunnan Eastern Bombardier Regional Jet Crash at Batou, China;
	2004 Beech King Air 200 Crash in Bosnia-Herzegovina;
	2004 U.S. Army Blackhawk Helicopter Crash near Waco, Texas;
	2004 Flash Airlines Boeing 737 Air Disaster off the coast of Egypt;
	2003 Air Algerie Boeing 737 Crash at Tamanrasset, Algeria;
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	_____ *Our representation of clients in these cases has been by Lieff Global attorneys while at Lieff Global or prior to their joining our firm.

Press Release - Families of Sharm el-Sheikh crash victims to sue Boeing in the United States

December 13, 2004 -- Families of victims of the Boeing plane crash in which 148 people died in the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh in January have taken legal action in the United States against Boeing and two other US aeronautics firms, their lawyers said Monday.

The crash of the chartered Flash Airlines Boeing 737, which claimed the lives of 135 French nationals soon after take-off on January 3, 2004, was the worst air disaster ever to hit France in terms of the number of French nationals killed.

The lawyers for the plaintiffs said the lawsuit would target Boeing, electronics and aerospace group Honeywell and premier aircraft lessor International Finance Lease Corporation (ILFC), which owned and was leasing the Boeing 737-300 to the Egyptian charter company Flash Airlines when it crashed.

Some 20 French and US lawyers have been jointly defending 124 of the 148 victims' families which have formed an association led by Frenchman Marc Chenet.

Monday, a San Francisco legal firm brought the case before a federal court in Los Angeles seeking damages and a trial, citing plane dysfunction, negligence and other irregularities.

"One minute after take-off, the plane began to veer to the right, which was not in line with any instruction from the pilot," US lawyer Robert Nelson told a press conference in Paris.

"The richer the company being sued is, the higher the amount of punitive damages can be," said another US lawyer, Robert Lieff, who noted that ILFC owns a third of the world's civilian airliner fleet.

In France, the association's legal team is suing Flash Airlines and a hearing is set for Janaury 18.

The lawyers said they have filed a total of 1,200 legal actions to demand a total of more than 200 million euros for moral prejudice alone.

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