Personal Injury Law

Fatique Caused Plane Skid on Michigan Runway

By Rob McKinney

The National Transportation Safety Board found sleepy pilots as the reason for a jet to skid off the runway in Michigan. I found the report interesting due to the fact that sleep fatigue is a factor in a variety of cases that I handle. In this case , the pilots had been up 16 hours, been on duty for 14 hours , and made five landings in "challenging conditions". Sleep fatigue acts like someone is under the influence of alcohol. Sleep fatigue causes serious accidents in trucking , railroads, and maritime operations. Standards for the number of hours a worker can be on duty are often a an issue in a accident claim. In any of these types of cases , it is important to investigate the hours an employee is on duty. It is another example of putting profits over people.

Full post as published by Nashville Personal Injury Lawyer on June 11, 2008 (boomark / email).