Representative Clients

Significant Cases

The Firm has been involved in the representation of personal injury victims and the survivors of those killed in more than 25 major air disasters and in more than 175 general aviation and military aircraft crashes, including:

• Aeroferinco, LET 410 UVP-E (crash), Chichen Itza, Mexico
• Birgenair, Boeing 757 (crash) - Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic
• American Airlines, Flight 102, DC-10 (runway crash) – Honolulu to Dallas
  
• Alaska Airlines, Flight 261, MD-83 (crash) - near Ventura, California
• El Al Airlines, Boeing 747-200 (crash) - Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• Pan American Airlines/KLM Airlines, Boeing 747 - Canary Islands
• Icelandic Airlines, DC-8 (hard landing)
• Lufthansa Airlines, Boeing 747 (crash) – Nairobi
• Pan American Airlines, DC-8 (crash) - Pago Pago
• United Airlines, Boeing 747 (door loss) - Hawaii to New Zealand
• Lauda Airlines, Boeing 767 – 300 (crash) – Thailand
• Alaska Airlines, Boeing 727 (crash) - Juneau, Alaska
• United Airlines, Boeing 737-200 (crash) – Chicago
• Hughes Airlines, DC-9 (crash) - Wemme, Oregon
• Mexicana Airlines, Boeing 727 (in-flight fire and crash) – Mexico
• Eastern Airlines, DC-9 (crash) - Denver, Colorado
• Alaska Airlines, MD-82 (runway crash) - PV Mexico to Sea-Tac (1997)
• Air Portugal, Boeing 727 (runway crash) – Portugal
• American Airlines, Lockheed Electra (prop accident) – Washington
• Capital International Airlines, DC-8 (crash) – Newfoundland
• Alaska Airlines, Boeing 727 (decompression) - Los Angeles to Portland
• Japan Airlines, Boeing 747 (crash) - Tokyo to Osaka
• USAF C5A (military air crash) – Saigon
• Turkish Airlines, DC-10 (crash) - Paris, France

The following are a few representative cases recently prosecuted by Krutch, Lindell, Bingham, Jones & Petrie, P.S.:

• The Firm represented the bereaved families of several passengers who lost their lives on Alaska Airlines Flight 261 when it crashed off the California coast. The disaster involved a McDonald Douglas MD-83 aircraft on which the jackscrew operating the horizontal stabilizer failed. Krutch, Lindell, Bingham, Jones & Petrie, P.S. filed cases in California and in Washington against Boeing Commercial Aircraft Company and Alaska Airlines, along with a number of other defendants. Ultimately, the case was resolved without trial through dynamic and effective settlement negotiations by Krutch, Lindell, Bingham, Jones & Petrie, P.S. attorneys. Although the settlement documents included a confidentiality clause, the dollar amount received by each Krutch Lindell client was substantial.
• In the case of Genther, et al. v. Holland America Lines, Turismo Aviomar, and Aero Ferinc, Krutch, Lindell, Bingham, Jones & Petrie, P.S. represented the families of 8 passengers who perished near Chichen Itza in Southern Mexico in the crash of the Czechoslovakian built aircraft flown by a Mexican airline. They were on a "flightseeing" shore excursion from their Holland America Caribbean Cruise when the crash occurred. The litigation involved the filing of lawsuits in the State of Washington and also in Florida, but Krutch, Lindell, Bingham, Jones & Petrie, P.S. attorneys were able to obtain substantial pre-trial confidential settlements for each of the Firm's clients.
• When an El Al cargo plane lost an engine and crashed into an apartment building in the Netherlands City of Amsterdam, killing and injuring a number of people, Krutch, Lindell, Bingham, Jones & Petrie, P.S., in association with several Dutch law firms, represented several injured victims and the surviving family members of a number of those killed in the crash.