Aviation

Kevin P. Durkin, partner at Clifford Law Offices and head of its aviation practice, spoke with FOX 32 Chicago news anchor Anita Blanton about the tragic crash that occurred at LaGuardia Airport on March 22, 2026. Air Canada Express Flight 8646 collided with a Port Authority vehicle, killing the two pilots and injuring many others. For more than 15 minutes, Durkin described how this crash was preventable and the work the law firm is undertaking…

Clifford Law Offices, an internationally recognized leader in plaintiffs’ aviation litigation, had its aviation experts create a draft animation (video is below) of the crash of Air Canada Express Flight 8646 and a fire rescue truck at New York’s LaGuardia Airport (LGA) on March 22, 2026, that left two pilots dead and dozens of others injured. “This crash was preventable had everyone been doing their jobs. The air traffic controller obviously cleared the fire truck…

The federal court of appeals in New Orleans on Tuesday, March 31, 2026, denied the petition of families of two crashes of Boeing 737-MAX8 aircraft to move forward with its criminal case against the aircraft manufacturer for violating the federal Crime Victims’ Rights Act (CVRA). In a 10-page per curiam decision by the three-judge Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals panel, the court upheld the dismissal by a federal district court judge in Texas who dismissed…

Robert A. Clifford, founder and senior partner at Clifford Law Offices, who has been involved in every major commercial airline crash in the U.S. in the last five decades, said he was disturbed by the National Transportation Safety Board’s (NTSB) initial findings revealed in a press conference that occurred on Tuesday, March 24, 2026. Those findings included a detailed, second-by-second summary of the last three minutes of the Jazz Aviation airplane’s Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR)…

Robert A. Clifford, founder and senior partner of Clifford Law Offices and internationally recognized plaintiffs’ attorney, commented on the latest aviation tragedy that occurred at New York’s LaGuardia Airport late on Sunday, March 22, 2026, leaving the two pilots dead and several others injured. LaGuardia Airport has been shut down until at least this afternoon, according to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). An Air Canada Express jet reportedly crashed into an Airport Rescue and Fire…

Robert A. Clifford, founder and senior partner at Clifford Law Offices, will be speaking on “Master Plaintiff and Defense Strategies in Modern Aviation Litigation” as part of a two-hour CLE webinar held noon-2:10 p.m. CDT on Friday, March 20, through myLawCLE. Presenting alongside Taylor Sandella of Kreindler & Kreindler of New York, he will offer practice-focused, strategic advice from intake to resolution on topics including targeted discovery and deposition strategies, maximizing recovery, and jurisdictional and…

Kevin P. Durkin, partner at Clifford Law Offices, will be speaking at the 60th Annual Southern Methodist University Air Law Symposium on the “Update on the Boeing MAX Litigation.” Durkin traveled to dozens of countries over the past seven years, involving the litigation against Boeing in the crash of a 737 MAX8 jet in Ethiopia that killed all 157 on board. He will be speaking on March 31 at the two-day conference on this complex…

Family members from around the world traveled to New Orleans to hear arguments on Thursday, February 5, 2026, before a federal appeals court regarding the criminal case against Boeing in two deadly crashes of the 737 MAX8 jet. More than a dozen family members were present in the courtroom, and many reacted with great hope that the three-judge panel of the Fifth Circuit will overturn the decision of the district court in Texas that dismissed…

Thirty-one families who lost loved ones in two crashes of Boeing 737 MAX8 jets will be arguing before the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans on Thursday, February 5, at 11:30 a.m. CST, asking the three-judge panel to overturn the district court’s previous order dismissing the criminal case against the aircraft giant. The oral argument can be heard online here. Paul Cassell, attorney for the families and Professor of the S.J. Quinney College…