Aviation Accident Lawyer

If you have been involved in an aviation accident, or have a family member or loved one that has, you may be searching for legal answers and options. According to aviation accident attorney Emery Ledger of Ledger & Associates, the first step to getting answers and solutions is to find the right aviation accident attorney. Deciding on an attorney is…

Commercial airline accidents are statistically a rare event. Considering the number of flight hours and the number of flights in the skies each day, the chances of being involved in a commercial airline accident are slim. Having said that, they do happen and when a commercial airline accident happens it usually has catastrophic consequences. Just recently, a Southwest airlines flight…

While flying in a jet on a commercial airline is generally safer than many other forms of transportation, accidents do still happen. Furthermore, statistically speaking, flying in a smaller commuter plane or a private or “for hire” plane can be just as risky as many other forms of transportation. Each year, according to statistics collected by the Aircraft Crashes Record…

Regardless of what statistic you choose to follow with regard to your chance of being involved in a plane crash, the bottom line is that planes do crash on a regularly basis. Whether they are small commuter planes, even smaller personal aircraft or large commercial jets, airplane crashes do continue to happen despite recent advancements in safety. So have these…

In the last century, since the Wright Brothers took that first flight back in 1903, the advancements in aviation have been nothing short of incredible. Today, on any given day there are over 87,000 flights scheduled in the skies over the United States. Many experts claim that flying is far safer than any other form of transportation. That may, however…

For those that fly frequently, you probably already have a favorite place to sit on the airplane. Some prefer the aisle while some the window. Some people head straight to the back, others insist on the front and still others want the emergency exit row. Most people have a reason for where they prefer to sit. Those that like the…

Airline travel has certainly come a long way since the Wright Brothers took that first flight back in 1903. While the first commercial flight took place a just a decade after that, travel by the predecessors of today’s jet airlines didn’t start until the late 1950’s and early 1960’s. Airline safety has made advancements in leaps and bounds since the…

Most of us have heard that traveling by airplane is statistically the safest form of travel. While this conclusion is highly debatable, it does seem as though we don’t hear as much about plane crashes as we do about car crashes or even train collisions. Typically, the only time we really hear about or pay attention to a plane crash…

Filing Claims for Aviation Injuries Unlike what most people know, aviation injuries happen regularly. However, these accidents are beyond the media’s reach because a large number of these occurrences do not happen in commercial airliners. Small but privately owned or chartered planes are the ones regularly involved these accidents, resulting to injuries to pilots and passengers alike. While most of…