Cincinnati, OH
Aviation Lawyer at Cincinnati, OH
Practice Areas: Aviation, Wrongful Death, Personal Injury
OUTCOME: Counsels clients resolved all cases by settlement
9 accidents involving 21 deaths were consolidated for liability discovery in the USDC for the District of Kansas. Attorney acted as liaison counsel and performed 4 years of discovery. Aircraft was the ... Caravan 208B.
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The disaster was the third-deadliest aviation incident to have occurred in the Atlantic Ocean.As the crash occurred in international waters, the responsibility for investigating the accident fell to th ... e Egyptian Civil Aviation Authority per International Civil Aviation Organization Annex 13. As the ECAA lacked the resources of the much larger American National Transportation Safety Board, the Egyptian government asked the NTSB to handle the investigation. Jerry Skinner was part of the Plaintiff’s Liason Counsel for American Plaintiffs.
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TWA Flight 800, a Boeing 747-100, exploded and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean near East Moriches, New York, on July 17, 1996 12 minutes after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport on a sc ... heduled international passenger flight to Rome, with a stopover in Paris. All 230 people on board were killed, the third-deadliest aviation accident to occur in U.S. territory. The four-year NTSB investigation concluded with the approval of the Aircraft Accident Report on August 23, 2000, ending the most extensive, complex, and costly air disaster investigation in United States history. Jerry Sinner served on the discovery committee.
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USAir Flight 405 was a regularly scheduled domestic passenger flight between LaGuardia Airport in New York City, and Cleveland, Ohio. On March 22, 1992, the plane crashed in poor weather in a partially ... inverted position in Flushing Bay, New York, shortly after liftoff from LaGuardia. The subsequent investigation revealed that due to pilot error, inadequate deicing procedures at LaGuardia, and several lengthy delays, a large amount of ice had accumulated on the wings and airframe
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On July 19, 1989, the DC-10 operating the route crash-landed in Sioux City, Iowa, after suffering catastrophic failure of its tail-mounted engine, which led to the loss of all flight controls. Of the 2 ... 96 people on board, 111 died in the accident while 185 survived. The cause of the engine failure was traced back to a manufacturing defect in the fan disk, which had microscopic cracks due to impurities. The cracking was present during maintenance inspections and should have been detected by maintenance personnel, revealing shortcomings in the maintenance processes. The accident had a strong impact on the industry. DC-10s were modified with hydraulic fuses to prevent catastrophic loss of hydraulic fluid should a similar failure occur again.
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Pan Am Flight 103 was a Pan Am transatlantic flight from London Heathrow Airport to New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport which was destroyed by a bomb on Wednesday, 21 December 1988, killin ... g all 243 passengers and 16 crew members. Large sections of the plane crashed into Lockerbie, Scotland, killing an additional 11 people on the ground. The event is known as the Lockerbie bombing. Jerry served as part of the discovery team.
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Multi District Litigation; Mass tort litigation.
OUTCOME: Extensive discovery, depositions, settlements and
Served on USDC Court Appointed Steering Committees in litigation arising out of the following commercial flight accidents: Northwest 255 at Detroit; TWA Flight 800 off of Long Island; Egypt Air Flight ... 990 near Cape Cod; Swiss Air Flight 111 Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia; and Air Force CT-43 near Dubrovnick, Croatia. Served on the litigation and trial teams for Nothwest 255; Usair 405 and Usair 427. Served as Plaintiff's Liason Counsel in Egypt Air Flight 990 and as Liason and Lead Counsel in , IN RE Cessna 208B Products Liability Litigation. Served as Counsel for Plaintiffs in mediation proceedings held in Cairo, Egypt, arising out of the crash of Egypt Air flight 990.
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