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Insurer Off the Hook for Claim Because Pilot Skipped Simulator Training

The co-pilot never attended flight simulator school, but the chief pilot let him take the wheel anyway. The plane crash-landed at the Aspen, Colorado airport. Nobody was hurt, but the owner of the airplane will not collect on its $5 …

American Airlines Jet Crew May Have Been Tired in Jamaica Crash

An investigation into a plane accident almost five years ago at a Jamaican airport has concluded that an American Airlines jet flying in from Miami botched the landing and the flight crew may have been fatigued. On Dec. 22, 2009, …