An air traffic control contractor’s argument that it is immune from a lawsuit alleging it caused a civilian cargo plane to crash in Afghanistan in 2010 will not be reviewed by the US Supreme Court, the justices announced Monday.
Last Friday, a case was removed from the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois to the Illinois Northern District of Illinois. The case was filed against
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Divers were able to recover the crashed plane’s flight-data recorder, which tracks hundreds of parameters showing how the plane was being operated, but were unable to find the memory unit from the cockpit voice recorder, which could tell investigators what the pilots were doing – or failing to do – to regain control of the plane during the brief, erratic flight. The module apparently broke away from other parts of the voice recorder during the crash.
Investigators are working with Boeing and the engine-maker, General Electric, to review the information from the flight-data recorder. A team from the US National Transportation Safety Board and the Federal Aviation Administration has also joined the investigation.