How an Aviation Accident Lawyer Can Help
After an aviation accident, victims and their families often face immense physical, emotional, and financial challenges. The journey to determine liability and seek compensation is complex but essential for recovery. Aviation accident attorneys play a crucial role in helping victims secure justice and holding responsible parties accountable.
Our lawyers understand the complexities of aviation regulations. We even have attorneys who are licensed pilots, whose insider perspective is invaluable in an aviation accident case. Our attorneys also have a knack for negotiation, whether dealing with insurance companies, manufacturers, or other defendants. We will demand full accountability and maximum restitution on your behalf. If a fair settlement can’t be reached, we’re prepared to take your case to trial. Most of all, our lawyers provide compassionate support throughout legal proceedings. We bring a sense of control during chaos, and we work tirelessly to deliver the answers and justice you deserve.
We understand that an aviation accident may have left you with strained finances. When selecting clients to represent in court, our firm operates on a contingency fee basis. What this means to our clients is simple: if we don’t win your case, you won’t pay anything. We choose to operate this way for the benefit of our clients – we want to see you obtain a successful recovery so that you can continue to carry on with your life.
Contact Wettermark Keith today by calling 866-455-2040 if you have been the victim of a personal injury from an aviation accident or have lost a loved one to a wrongful death after an aviation accident.
Types of Aviation Accidents
Aviation accidents can occur in various contexts and aircraft types, each with unique circumstances, challenges, and legal intricacies:
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Helicopter Accidents
Helicopters serve a wide variety of functions, from efficiently transporting executives or sightseers, to providing air ambulance services in medical emergencies, to facilitating crew transports to offshore oil platforms. However, their exposed rotors, along with the demands of vertical takeoff and landing, predispose helicopters to higher risks than fixed-wing aircraft, especially when operating in adverse weather conditions.
Commercial Airplane Crashes
Large-scale accidents involving jets operated by commercial passenger airlines can result in catastrophic loss of life and extensive property damage. The complex legal landscape surrounding major airline crashes typically involves multiple potential defendants, including the airline carrier itself, aircraft and part manufacturers, maintenance providers, air traffic control agencies, pilots, and others. Navigating complex aviation regulations and jurisdictional considerations demands an experienced team of aviation accident attorneys.
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Private Plane Crashes
Smaller private planes, as well as air taxi and commuter charters with fewer than 30 passengers, are governed by far less stringent safety regulations than major commercial airliners. As a result, their accident rates are substantially higher. Pilot inexperience and inadequate training is a leading cause of these frequent accidents, as is poor aircraft maintenance and a lack of some modern safety features found on larger commercial jets. The reduced redundancies and safeguards available to small planes also heighten risks to passengers should unexpected equipment failures occur.
Air Tour and Sightseeing Accidents
Aerial sightseeing tours via helicopter or airplane have become popular enhancements to vacation packages offered by tourist destinations worldwide. Unfortunately, minimal regulatory oversight, coupled with intense price competition encourages some operators to cut corners on safety and staff planes with inexperienced pilots ill-equipped to handle unpredictable conditions. Distracted air tour pilots concerned with ensuring passengers get optimal views can add to these dangers.
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Air Ambulance Incidents
Responding rapidly to medical emergencies is a vital function for air ambulances or medical helicopters. However, their urgency and unique operating conditions – including landing at accident scenes and hospital helipads with tight clearances – can substantially escalate hazards. Fatigue from irregular schedules, a sense of urgency, and elevated risks when transporting critically ill patients requiring constant attention during flight have led to a doubled accident rate for medical helicopters and planes.
Common Aviation Accident Injuries:
Due to the extreme forces involved in aviation accidents, accident victims frequently suffer severe, life-altering injuries. Some of the most common aviation-related injuries include:
- Traumatic Brain Injuries – Being violently jolted inside an aircraft can cause the brain to strike the interior of the skull, resulting in bleeding, swelling, and other trauma. Even mild concussions can have long-term impacts like memory problems, headaches, and increased epilepsy risk. More serious traumatic brain injuries lead to extensive permanent damage or death.
- Spinal Cord Injuries – The spine is especially vulnerable to hyperextension and compression injuries during air accidents. Damage to the spinal cord can cause partial or total paralysis, loss of sensation, impaired bowel/bladder function, chronic pain, and other permanent consequences.
- Broken Bones – Fractures are among the most frequent injuries in aviation accidents. The arms and legs are most prone, but ribs, pelvis, facial bones, vertebrae, and other areas also frequently break. Serious compound or open fractures pierce the skin and raise infection risks.
- Internal Organ Damage – Being thrown about violently in an airplane crash can tear, rupture, or lacerate internal organs. Heart, lungs, liver, kidneys, spleen, and intestines are all vulnerable. Massive internal bleeding is a major threat to life.
- Burns – Post-crash fires are a serious hazard to passengers, causing serious third and fourth-degree burns. Chemical and electrical burns may also occur from contact with airplane fluids and live wiring. Burn scars, grafting, and contractions are common long-term results of an airplane accident.
- Psychological Trauma – Being involved in a near-death situation can inflict immense emotional trauma. Post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety, depression, and suicidal thoughts are common after an aviation accident. Extensive counseling and therapy is often required to regain a normal life.
- Amputations – Being trapped in wreckage with jagged, twisted metal leads to severed limbs and extremities. Amputation may also be required for severe crush or degloving injuries. Prosthetics, attachments, and rehabilitation can help amputees regain function after an aviation accident.
Wettermark Keith’s skilled aviation accident attorneys understand the complex medical issues plane crash victims often face. We work with top medical experts to prove the full extent of damages so that you or your loved ones can obtain fair compensation for injuries and necessary lifelong care.
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