Horse racing safety advocates are proposing national systems for tracking jockey injuries and sharing horse pre-race medical records in an effort to reduce accidents. The third annual Welfare and Safety of the Racehorse Summit, sponsored by the Jockey Club, focused …
Family members of one of 49 people killed in a 2006 Kentucky plane crash have been awarded a $7.1 million civil verdict, but a separate jury will decide whether Comair must also pay millions more in the only passenger lawsuit …
Nearly a year after the first fatal injury at America’s most famous horse race, Churchill Downs announced this week it is beefing up safety requirements ahead of this year’s Kentucky Derby. The company is enacting more than 20 changes, ranging …
A judge’s controversial ruling in a Kentucky plane crash liability case has sparked concern across the aviation industry about the long-term survival of a popular program that allows air travel workers to privately report safety violations. U.S. District Judge Karl …
Federal investigators released their final report Tuesday on last summer’s deadly crash of a Comair flight in Kentucky, finding that the pilots were primarily responsible but making safety recommendations that extend to the control tower and elsewhere. The report by …
The sole survivor from the airliner that crashed after taking off from the wrong runway at Lexington, Ky.’s Blue Grass Airport, killing 49 people, is suing the company that designed the runway and taxiway lights. James Polehinke, the co-pilot of …
A lead investigator of last summer’s deadly Comair plane crash in Kentucky that killed 49 people says the accident exposed “latent failures” across the nation’s aviation system. In an eight-page concurring opinion obtained by The Associated Press, National Transportation Safety …
The family of a woman killed when Comair Flight 5191 took off on the wrong runway and crashed in flames sued the airline, blaming it for the United States’ deadliest airplane disaster in five years. The lawsuit accuses Comair of …
