Lawsuit filed for horrific Raton helicopter crash that killed five people Share Updated: 7:35 AM MST Dec 18, 2020 Share Updated: 7:35 AM MST Dec 18, 2020
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Show Transcript JANUARY? EVERYONE ON BOARD THAT HELICOPTER WAS HEADING TO A PARTY ON A RANCH IN NORTHERN NEW MEXICO. NEVER MADE IT. MA’AM, STOP STOP YELLING. TE ME WHERE YOU’RE AT THE CRASH HAPPENED JANUARY 2018. THE GROUP HAD JUST FLOWN IN FROM TEXAS AND LANDED BY JET AT THE AIRPORT IN RATON THEN BOARDED A HUEY HELICOPTER ON BY, TEXAS MILLIONAIRE CHARLES BURNETT. CIVIL LAWSUIT JUST FILED THIS SUN HAD SET THE HELICOPTER PILOT JC DODD WAS NOT FAMILIAR WITH THE TERRAIN AND CRASHED ONTO THE MESA SIX O’CLOCK AT NIGHT. IT WAS ONE OF THE DARKEST NIGHTS OF THE YEAR INVESTIGATORS. SAY THE HELICOPTER BURST INTO FLAMES KILLING EVERYONE ON BOARD EXCEPT ANDHRA COBB THE CIVIL LAWSUIT CLAIMS. SHE WAS BADLY INJURED, BUT TRY TO PULL FELLOW PASSENGERS TO SAFETY. NO ONE ELSE SURVIVED INCLUDING
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DALLAS, Dec. 16, 2020 /PRNewswire/ The Dallas-based trial firm Lyons & Simmons has filed a negligence lawsuit against San Antonio-based Sapphire Aviation on behalf of the estate of Houston resident Paul David Cobb, one of five people killed in a 2018 crash of a Bell UH-1H helicopter in rural northern New Mexico.
According to reports, the group flew by private jet from Houston on Jan. 17, 2018, to Raton, New Mexico, where they transferred to the Huey helicopter for a short flight to Emery Gap Ranch for a birthday party. Lifting off just after sunset, the helicopter crashed into a plateau in a mountainous rural area 11 miles from Raton. Mr. Cobb, a 67-year-old veteran of the Pasadena, Texas, Police Department, survived the initial impact but sustained skull and rib fractures and internal hemorrhaging that left him unable to flee the fire caused by the crash. He ultimately died from his injuries.