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A Tacoma law firm that specializes in plane crash litigation has filed suit on behalf of four Honduras plane crash victims.
The suit, filed in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles by the Tacoma law firm of Herrmann Scholbe late Wednesday, claims the pilot of a TACA Airlines plane used poor judgment in landing an Airbus A320 during poor weather at an airport in Tegucigalpa, Honduras May 30. Five people were killed in that accident.
According to the suit, the pilot made two approaches to the difficult airport at Tegucigalpa. He aborted the first landing when he emerged from the clouds halfway down the short, 5,300-foot runway.
He landed the aircraft on the second try despite having little more than half of the rain-soaked runway remaining to stop the aircraft, the suit claims.
"The plane overshot the runway and then crashed into a ravine where the fuselage cracked into three pieces as it finally came to a rest straddling the street below," claims Tacoma attorney Charles Herrmann.
Three passengers died and two students in cars on the street were killed.
International law allows passengers to file suit in any of several venues including the country in which the tickets were purchased, in the country where their final destination is located and in the country where they live regardless of their citizenship. The plane was due to fly to Miami after leaving Honduras.
Herrmann's firm also represents four other plaintiffs who will file suit in Honduras.
Herrmann has represented clients in numerous air disasters during the last quarter century. His firm first gained a reputation by representing the families of passengers of Korean Air Lines flight KAL 007 shot down by a Soviet MIG over Sahhalin Island in 1983.
