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At approximately 7:23 p.m., on November 4, 2025, a UPS McDonnell Douglas MD-11F Freighter aircraft bearing registration number N259UP, and operated as UPS Flight 2976, departed from Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport in Louisville, Kentucky and crashed immediately upon takeoff.  The UPS cargo flight, which was destined for Honolulu, Hawaii, exploded into flames causing extensive injuries and damage in the debris path.  Surveillance video captured the takeoff and crash and demonstrated that the left engine was on fire as the aircraft began to lift off the runway and when it slammed into an industrial area near the airport where several businesses are located.

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On June 12, 2025, at approximately 1:43 p.m. local time, Air India Flight 171, a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner with 242 passengers and crew, crashed shortly after takeoff from Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. The London-bound flight was scheduled to land at Gatwick Airport when it crashed shortly after takeoff.  Miraculously, one passenger, Vishwash Kumar Ramesh, who was seated in Seat 11A survived the crash, but his brother, who was also on the London bound flight was tragically killed.
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On Saturday, April 12, 2025, at approximately 12:06 p.m., a Mitsubishi MU-2B-40 Solitaire aircraft, bearing Federal Aviation Administration Number N635TA, crashed in upstate New York 10 miles from the Columbia Airport.  The crash tragically killed all six occupants.  The aircraft was traveling to upstate New York for a family gathering as well as to celebrate the Passover Holiday.

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The team at Speiser Krause extends its sympathy to those tragically impacted by the recent mid-air collision. The families of the victims are first and foremost in our hearts and minds and we are here to help navigate the difficult days ahead.

On Wednesday, January 29, 2025, American Eagle Flight 5342 (a CRJ700 aircraft) operated by PSA Airlines was seconds away from landing at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport and was established on short final for its landing on Runway 33. At approximately 350 feet above the Potomac River the CRJ700 and a U.S.

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On Tuesday November 5, 2024, a HondaJet Model HA-420 bearing Federal Aviation Registration Number N57HP which was owned by Ice Man Holdings LLC crashed due to an attempted aborted takeoff from Falcon Field (KFFZ) in Mesa, Arizona. The aircraft departed the end of the runway, crashed through a perimeter fence and hit an automobile as it was travelling on North Greenfield Road. Tragically, four occupants of the aircraft and the driver of the vehicle perished as a result. One aircraft occupant sustained severe personal injuries.

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Speiser Krause is investigating the crash of a de Havilland DHC-2 Beaver aircraft that crashed during an attempted takeoff in the early morning of June 16, 2024.  The four passengers were set to enjoy a fly-fishing trip when they were being transported from the Operator’s base in Ontario, Canada to a remote lake.  Two of the passengers were seriously injured, one of whom tragically passed away in the hospital days after the crash.  It has been reported that the two other passengers and the pilot were treated for minor injuries.

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The team at Speiser Krause recently resolved litigation arising from the crash of a Cessna Citation aircraft owned by Brook Haven Properties, LLC that crashed during an attempted takeoff from Robertson Field in Plainville, Connecticut, resulting in the deaths of two passengers and the two-person flight crew. The Plaintiff alleged that the crash was caused by a defectively designed parking brake which was the subject of European Safety Directives that had yet to be implemented in the United States. The confidential settlement resolved pending litigation.
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In Memoriam
Juanita M. Madole

It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Juanita M. Madole on July 12, 2023, after a brief battle with cancer. After a successful career with the Department of Justice, Juanita joined Speiser, Krause and Madole where she remained a respected partner in our Washington, D.C.

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SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS— U.S. Federal District Court Judge Xavier Rodriguez issued a verdict today against the United States Government in the amount of $230,000,000 for the Government’s role in causing the shooting at Sutherland Springs First Baptist Church on November 5, 2017. Twenty-six souls perished and twenty-two more were seriously injured in the deadliest mass shooting in Texas history. The verdict will compensate more than 80 family members of victims and survivors who filed suit against the government. Read the full verdict here.

In April of 2021, Judge Rodriguez ruled that the Air Force was 60 percent responsible for the shooting. Rodriguez found that for more than thirty years, the Air Force negligently and dangerously failed to report thousands of violent felons into the FBI criminal background check system. That system, the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS), is designed to prevent convicted criminals from purchasing or possessing firearms. One of those felons illegally purchased an assault rifle with multiple high-capacity magazines and used to commit the shooting at Sutherland Springs First Baptist Church.

In a 185-page opinion, Judge Rodriguez individually evaluated each of the victims’ losses and rendered a verdict that family legal representatives agree falls within settled law in Texas state and federal courts for similar instances of grievous loss. He explained: “The losses and pain these families have experienced is immeasurable. Our civil justice system only allows us to rectify these kinds of losses through money damages. Valuing human life, pain, and suffering is a task that our justice system has imposed on judges and juries, and the methodology used by both has been varied…. Ultimately, there is no satisfying way to determine the worth of these families’ pain.”

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Speiser Krause is pleased to announce that Richard E. Genter is now of counsel to the firm. For more than forty years, Richard has litigated complex aviation cases in numerous federal and state courts, both at the trial and appellate level. Formerly a member of the Philadelphia, PA based firm, Wolk & Genter, specializing in aviation accident litigation, Richard opened his own practice in 2004, where he has successfully litigated scores of general aviation accident cases on behalf of victims who have been catastrophically injured or killed in air crashes caused by defective products supplied or manufactured by airframe, engine and component part manufacturers, as well as accidents caused by the negligence of maintenance facilities, aircraft owners and operators, and air traffic controllers.

Richard is a graduate of the Pennsylvania State University and The Temple University Law School and is admitted to practice in the state courts of Pennsylvania and in the United States District Courts for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and the District of Colorado, as well as the United States Court of Appeals for the Third and Ninth Circuits.

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Speiser Krause is monitoring the investigation into the September 2, 2021 crash of a Cessna Citation XLS business jet (FAA Registration Number N560AR) that crashed during an attempted takeoff from Robertson Field in Plainville, Connecticut. Tragically, the passengers, a married couple, were two young physicians who left behind a one-year-old son and the wife was also pregnant at the time of the tragedy. The two-person flight crew were also killed, and four individuals sustained injuries when the aircraft crashed into a building, one of whom sustained serious injuries.

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