Tue, Nov 16, 2010
Families Of Two Of Those Fatally Injured Filed Suit Against The
County
The Yavapai County, AZ Board of Supervisors is set to consider
whether to settle a lawsuit stemming from an accident in 2006 in
which five people were fatally injured.
Piper Cheyenne File Photo
The accident occurred when a Piper Cheyenne flown by William
Friedman, the operations director for the Arizona Skyfest Air Show,
was inspecting the landing gear of an airborne MiG-21. The others
on board the plane were the Executive Director of the air show,
along with a photographer and a former military pilot. The jet
exhaust reportedly caused the upper section of the Cheyenne's
vertical stabilizer to separate from the airplane, causing it to
enter a dive from which Friedman was unable to recover. The NTSB
listed the probable cause of the accident as "The failure of the
pilot following a jet aircraft to maintain adequate separation from
the high velocity jet core exhaust. The separation of the T-tail
upper section vertical stabilizer of the following aircraft due to
contact with the high velocity jet core exhaust was a factor."
The Prescott, AZ Daily Courier reports that the county
supervisors must determine whether to settle the suit brought by
the families of two of the passengers killed in the accident. The
families hold that the county was negligent in how it handled the
remains of the deceased. They say that they discovered human
remains left at the impact site after they had been told that that
the remains had been taken to the coroner's office and released for
burial. The family members had been searching for the wedding ring
of one of those killed in the accident.
MiG 21 File Photo
The county has denied that it mishandled the remains.
Other suits were filed claiming wrongful death, and those have
reportedly been settled out of court.
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