Lawsuit filed in 2009 plane crash in Truckee
By Mike Danko, Aviation Law Monitor
We’ve filed suit against Los Gatos real estate broker Karen Trolan, her husband Steve Trolan, and their company, Trolan Enterprises, as a result of the September 2009 plane crash that left the Trolans’ passenger, 14 year-old Marilyn Mitchell, seriously injured.
The Trolans were headed from Truckee Tahoe airport to San Jose. They needed very littlKaren Trolane fuel for the short flight. But fuel was a few pennies per gallon cheaper in Truckee than in San Jose. The Trolans decided to fill the tanks of their single-engine Cessna 206 to the tops.
Typical money grubbing lawyer talk.
Charles Lindbergh took off for Paris at approximately double the aircrafts certified gross weight from a muddy dirt field and he successfully landed in France.
Thousands of ferry flights in light aircraft have also successfully taken off with one and a half to two times their certified gross weight on long overwater flights.
The FAA or NTSB tends to blame pilot error when no other cause can be found
in the crumpled, smoldering wreckage. Doesn’t necessarily mean it is so.
BTW, who is the “we’ve” in the articles first word?