Neglegence Found In Carnahan Plane Crash

[RUexperienced]

http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/nat-gen/2004/jan/16/011607345.html

Today: January 16, 2004 at 15:10:17 PST

Negligence Found in Gov. Carnahan Crash

ASSOCIATED PRESS

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - A jury found an airplane parts manufacturer negligent in the 2000 plane crash that killed Gov. Mel Carnahan and his son, and awarded their family $4 million.

The Carnahan family's attorney argued that a pair of vacuum pumps made by Parker Hannifin Corp. failed, causing the plane to crash. Killed were pilot Randy Carnahan, his father and Chris Sifford, a longtime aide to the governor.

The jury awarded compensatory damages of $3 million for Mel Carnahan and $1 million for Randy Carnahan. They jury did not award any punitive damages....

Carnahan, a Democrat, was killed Oct. 16, 2000, en route to a campaign appearance during his race for the U.S. Senate seat then held by Republican John Ashcroft, now U.S. attorney general....

[bigtree]

1. His wife showed the most public courage and commitment

to the country since Jackie Kennedy.

[Must_B_Free]

2. 2 pumps failed at once?

what a coincidence...

[worldgonekrazy]

7. Yeah, kinda like all those oddities in the Wellstone crash

You know...there were two pilots yet both of them were apparently asleep/REALLY drunk/dead because they drove the plane right into the ground.

Nothing to see here. Move on.

[worldgonekrazy]

8. Yeah, kinda like all those oddities in the Wellstone crash

You know...there were two pilots yet both of them were apparently asleep/REALLY drunk/dead because they drove the plane right into the ground.

Nothing to see here. Move on.

[leesa]

3. I wonder what the story is on Parker Hannifin Corp.?

Any recent large endowments from the GOP?

[Must_B_Free]

4. It sounds quite familiar for some reason

[Syrinx]

5. And the manager of the company's Gear Pump div. was killed in December

SANFORD -- A single-engine plane with five passengers leaving Wednesday for the First Flight celebration at Kill Devil Hills crashed minutes after a predawn takeoff, killing the pilot and injuring four others.

Jaime F. Beingolea, 46, of Raleigh, who owned the Cessna 206, died in the crash just after 5 a.m. about three-quarters of a mile from the the Sanford-Lee County Airport's runway.

Beingolea was general manager of the Gear Pump division of Parker Hannifin Corp., overseeing plants in Sanford and Kings Mountain, as well as in Ohio, Florida and Mexico.

http://www.newsobserver.com/front/digest/story/3137557p-2838383c.html

[bobbieinok]

6. good grief.......this stuff just gets worser and worsest

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