On April 4, 2019, a helicopter in flight to Sarasota, Florida suffered engine failure, forcing an emergency landing in a busy intersection.

Jennifer Moore commenced litigation against British Airways to recover for injuries sustained when she fell while disembarking an aircraft using a portable staircase.

Pro se Plaintiff Aliou Barry filed suit against Royal Air Maroc ("RAM") in New York state court seeking damages for baggage lost by RAM during carriage from New York City to Cairo, Egypt.

In Hall, a trial court had consolidated two related cases, both involving a dispute between siblings.

The AIR uses three small planes to provide aerial observation of 90% of the city, the results of which are used to track movement of individuals and suspects in the vicinity of a violent crime.

A New York federal district court excluded plaintiff's expert's opinions and granted summary judgment for the airline in De Larancuente v. American Airlines, Inc...

While flying from Memphis to Tampa Bay, the pilot of the Skymaster had to make an off-field emergency landing, resulting in damage to the aircraft.

The U.S. District Court for the District of Alaska recently held that a manufacturer and installer of a short-field takeoff and landing kit could not assert the learned intermediary and...

A Washington federal judge granted an airline's motion to transfer an in-flight personal injury claim to Pennsylvania in Martin v. Am. Airlines, Inc.

On February 15, 2015, President Obama tasked the National Telecommunications & Information Administration ("NTIA") of the U.S. Department of Commerce with development of "best practices for privacy, accountability, and transparency issues regarding commercial and private UAS use in the National Airspace System."

A New Jersey federal court recently reformed a fleet insurance policy to exclude coverage for non-owned aircraft based upon the doctrine of mutual mistake.

The Fourth Circuit, sitting en banc, recently overturned a previously upheld denial of a preliminary injunction seeking to prohibit the Baltimore Police Department's ("BPD")...

New regulations governing National Transportation Safety Board investigative hearings, meetings, reports and petitions for reconsideration are set to go into effect on January 25, 2016.

A Montana federal district court has found contacts with the forum state merely "relating to" the cause of action are sufficient to support the exercise of specific personal jurisdiction over a foreign helicopter manufacturer.

California has now joined 45 other states, at least temporarily, in allowing pain and suffering damages in survival actions.

While passengers are not able to pursue pure EU 261 claims in the U.S., they still may succeed with state court breach of contract claims against carriers based on flight delays or cancellations...

The plaintiff in Hammons alleged serious injuries resulting from use of a medical device manufactured by Ethicon, one of the components of which was pelvic mesh.

Under the proposed rule, the entity responsible for launching the commercial spaceflight must immediately notify the NTSB following an accident or incident.

A recent decision by the Third Circuit Court of Appeals provides airline travelers with an avenue of recourse for mistreatment at the hands of Transportation Security Officers (TSOs).

In Lehman Bros. Holdings Inc. v. Gateway Funding Diversified Mortgage Servs. LP, the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit issued a warning about failures of parties and their counsel to follow the appellate rules.