HOUSTON AVIATION ACCIDENTS

Houston Aviation Accidents


Major International Airline Accidents:

Although Calehr & Associates is a relative new comer to the challenging world of International Aviation law, in a relatively short time span we have been involved in a considerable amount of international aviation disasters ranging from Asia, Africa and Central America.

Calehr & Associates has proudly associated themselves in the last (2) years with Stewarts Law LLP who in 2007, represented more than 15% of passengers and their families involved in aviation crashes worldwide and are rated number one in England for fatal accident and injury claims. Stewarts Law have unique knowledge of and access to the global aviation insurance market based in the City of London. Their unique relationship with the insurance market is of proven benefit to our combined clients in speeding up the settlement of their claims and maximising their compensation.

The following is a partial list of the major aviation disasters in which Calehr & Associates has represented passengers and their families in partnership with an international joint venture of leading aviation firms first and foremost among them - Stewarts Law LLP of London, England under the leadership of widely acclaimed James-Healy-Pratt to combine our considerable joint experience, talent and resources to assist victims who have suffered injury or bereavement.

Adam Air Boeing 737-400 Flight KI 574, January 1, 2007, Majene, Indonesia-Crashed into Ocean

Garuda Indonesia Airlines Boeing 737-497 Flight GA 200, Yogjakarta, Indonesia, March 7, 2007-Crash on Landing

Kenya Airways Boeing 737-800ER Flight KQ-507, Doulla, Cameroon, May 5, 2007-Under Investigation

Adam Air Boeing 737-400 Flight KI 294 on March 10, 2008 in Batam, Indonesia-Under Investigation

Santa Barbara's ATR 42-300, a turboprop flight 518 on February 22, 2008 in Merida, Venezuela- Under Investigation

TACA Airlines Airbus A320 Flight 390 on May 30, 2008 in Tegucigalpa, Honduras- Under Investigation

Southern Sudan Air Connection Hawker Beechcraft 1900 C-1 May 2 2008 in Rumbek in the southern Bahr al-Ghazal province (Sudan)

Sudan Airways Airbus A310-324 Flight 109 on June 10, 2008 in Khartoum, Sudan- Crash on Landing

USEFUL LINKS:

U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB)-National Transportation Safety Board

Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)-FAA: Home

FAA Accident & Incident Data-Accident & Incident Data

Aviation Safety Reporting System-ASRS - Aviation Safety Reporting System

Aviation Insurance Association (AIA)-Welcome to AIA

International Union of Aerospace Insurers-(IUAI)-IUAI Website

Air Safety Week-Air Safety Week

International Air Transport Association (IATA)-International Air Transport Association

The Boeing Company-The Boeing Company

International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO)-ICAO | International Civil Aviation Organization

U.K. Air Accidents Investigations Branch (AAIB)-Air Accidents Investigation Branch: Home

Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB)-International Civil Aviation Organization | Links

Indonesian National Transportation Safety Committee (NTSC)-AAIC

Direktorat Jenderal Perhubungan Udara-Indonesia-http://hubud.dephub.go.id/

1999 Montreal Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules of International Carriage  by Air, Montreal, 28 May 1999-Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules for International Carriage by Air

FAA Hosted Databases (NASDAC)-ASIAS Home

Date
Treaty
Parties
1929  

Warsaw Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules Relating to International Carriage by Air (French) 

1944

Chicago Convention on International Civil Aviation 

1952

Rome Convention on Damage Caused by Foreign Aircraft to Third Parties on the Surface 

1955
1961

Guadalajara Supplementary Convention 

1963

Tokyo Convention on Offences and Certain Other Acts Committed on Board Aircraft 

1970

Hague Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Seizure of Aircraft 

1971
1971

Montreal Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Civil Aviation 

1975

Montreal Additional Protocol No.1 

1975

Montreal Additional Protocol No.2 

1975

Montreal Additional Protocol No.3 

1975

Montreal Additional Protocol No.4 

1978

Montreal Protocol to Amend the Convention on Damage Caused by Foreign Aircraft to Third Parties on the Surface signed at Rome on 7 October 1952 

1988

Montreal Protocol to the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the safety of Civil Aviation done at Montreal on 23 September 1971 

1995
1995

Measures to Implement the IATA Intercarrier Agreement 

1999

Montreal Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules for International Carriage by Air 

2001

Cape Town Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment 

2001

Cape Town Protocol to the Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment on Matters specific to Aircraft Equipment