Santa Barbara Airlines flight 518 crashed in the Venezuelan Andes approximately 300 miles southwest of Caracas on Thursday, February 21, 2008. The flight, en route from Merida to Caracas, was reported missing at 5:45 p.m. local time when the flight crew did not respond to air traffic controllers. It has been reported that all 46 individuals aboard the ATR 42-300 turbo-prop aircraft, including 43 passengers and 3 crew members, are assumed dead. The cause of this terrible tragedy is not known at this time.
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Motley Rice LLC’s aviation team consists of the former Inspector General of the United States Department of Transportation, aviation professor and pilot, attorney Mary Schiavo; Portuguese and Italian speaking attorney Donald Migliori, who along with Ms. Schiavo is currently counsel for plaintiffs in the pending September 11, 2001, aviation cases in New York; attorney Donald L. McCune, a former airline captain who has piloted numerous passenger jet liners and recently won a landmark ruling in U.S. courts for victims of a 2005 Venezuelan crash; negotiator Joe Rice; and Latin American-raised attorney Rhett Klok, who is fluent in Spanish and English. This team of attorneys is supported by numerous paralegals, an aviation maintenance expert, a former air traffic controller, multilingual translators and information technology specialists. Ms. Schiavo was once a plaintiffs’ expert witness in an ATR crash in Chicago, Illinois, and gave opinions on improper certification of the ATR aircraft and its lack of robust testing.
The Motley Rice aviation team is researching this accident and the legal responsibility that Santa Barbara Airlines and other defendants may have to the families of the victims of this disaster. If you or someone you know is interested in seeking legal recourse due to wrongful death as a result of this accident, please contact Motley Rice Aviation attorney Mary Schiavo at (843) 216-9138 or toll free at 1-800-768-4026.
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Motley Rice attorneys have many years of experience representing victims of airline disasters and have aircraft pilots and mechanics on staff. We also have French, Portuguese and Spanish translators on staff. If you have any questions, comments or would like to explore your legal rights as a result of this air crash, click here. |
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