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Pilot's dad sues over fatal crash
Associated Press
Published January 22, 2006
MIAMI - The father of the pilot killed in the crash of a Chalk's Ocean Airways seaplane has filed a $100-million lawsuit against the airline.
Pilot Michele Marks of Boynton Beach and 19 others aboard the plane were killed when it plunged into the water shortly after takeoff en route to the Bahamas.
The lawsuit, filed Friday in Miami-Dade Circuit Court by Jack P. McCormick on behalf of his daughter's estate, states that a preliminary National Transportation Safety Board report shows a fatigue crack on the 58-year-old seaplane may have caused the crash. The suit also names Chalk's owner James Confalone, and an aircraft parts supplier based in Largo. South Carolina lawyer Mary Schiavo, who represents McCormick and other family members, said her investigators learned the plane had light corrosion on a wing in 1991. She argued in the lawsuit the plane was too old to be flying, and was not properly maintained.
This was the latest wrongful-death suit filed by family members of crash victims.
Roger Nair, Chalk's general manager, didn't respond to a phone message Saturday.
[Last modified January 22, 2006, 01:01:11]
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