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Plane Crash

This area of personal injury law doesn't only pertain to plane crashes, but also any injury that occurs between the time a passenger boards a plane, and the time they exit. Actually, about 80% of all plane crashes happen just before, during, or after takeoff or landing. When most people think of air plane accidents, they tend to envision them happening in mid flight. Although these plane accidents happen, they are rare.

It's also rare that injured passengers are at fault for their own injuries, in air plane accidents. A long term accident survey showed that 53 percent of commercial air plane accidents were due to pilot error.

Other causes were:

  • Mechanical failure: 21%
  • Bad weather conditions: 11%
  • Other human error: 8%
  • High-jacking: 6%
  • Other causes: 1%

As you can see, passengers are rarely at fault for their plane accident injuries. This is why plane accident victims are often able to collect pecuniary and non-pecuniary damages. Pecuniary damages being medical expenses, and lost wages; and non-pecuniary, being recovery for pain and suffering that the plane injury has caused.

Personal injury attorney and plane crash attorney Arkady Reifman, has dealt with numerous plane crash accident lawsuits in Chicago. He will examine your case thoroughly to yield the best possible result in damages.