This highly-qualified expert of aircraft certification has over 40 years of experience in the aircraft field. He earned his BS in aeronautics from the Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and holds a Federal Aviation Administration airframe and powerplant license. He is also a certified aircraft appraiser and is an active member of the Professional Aircraft Appraisal Organization and the International Society of Safety Professionals. Formerly, he served as a product ...
This aviation expert's total flight time is over 24,000 hours in over 100 different aircraft types. He is a certified multi-engine flight instructor, flight engineer, and airline transport pilot. He is a member of numerous aviation organizations, including the Allied Pilots Association and the United States Pilot Association. Aircrafts this expert has flown include the Boeing 727, 737, 757, 767, and 777 models. His former work experience includes being a charter pilot ...
This expert has over 30 years of experience in aviation and air traffic control. He is active in his field as a member of several professional organizations including the Air Traffic Control Association and the Federal Aviation Managers Association. He previously served as an air traffic control specialist for the U.S. Navy and the Federal Aviation Administration. He was also an air traffic control plan and programs specialist and a supervisory air traffic control ...
This experienced aviation expert earned his BS from Amherst College and is a certified airline transport pilot and flight instructor. He formerly served as a pilot for Penobscot Island Air and as the president of Skywagon Air Service, where he specialized in aircraft marketing and developed technology to maximize turn around time on charter requests to qualified vendor selection. For the almost a decade, he has been serving as the president of an aviation consultancy, ...
Dr. Jonathan G. French has 40 years of experience in Human Factors and Ergonomics and he earned his BS, MS, and Ph.D. in Physiological Psychology from Colorado State University. Formerly, this expert served as a Research Pharmacologist at Parke-Davis, as a Research Associate in the Department of Pharmacology at the University of Michigan, and as a Lead Neuroscientist at Micro Analysis and Design, Inc. Currently, this expert serves as the Director of Research and as a ...
Mr. W. Daniel Cerkan has over 30 years of experience in Aviation Safety. He earned his BA in Political Science from Pennsylvania State University and his MS in Aeronautical Sciences from Embry Riddle Aeronautical University. Today this expert is an Accredited Auditor by Helicopter Association International, Airline Transport Pilot by Federal Aviation Administration, and IS-BAO Auditor by the International Business Aviation Council. Formerly, this expert served as the ...
Mr. Mike Cannon has 27 years of experience in the field of Aviation. He earned his BS in Management Information Systems from Texas A&M University, his MS in Computer Science from Colorado Technical University, and his MBA from the University of St. Thomas. Today, this expert is certified as an Airline Transport Pilot and as a Flight Instructor by the Federal Aviation Administration. Formerly, this expert served as a Utility Pilot for Source Helicopters and as both a ...
Mr. Colin A. Sommer has 20 years of experience in Aviation. He earned his BSE in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of Michigan. Today, this expert is a certified Private Pilot by the Federal Aviation Administration and a licensed Professional Engineer in the state of Colorado. Currently, he serves as an Aircraft Mishap and Failure Investigator and as the Vice President of Aeroscope, Inc. He also serves as the Director of Manufacturing at eTuk USA....
Dr. Jeffrey Edwards has over 45 years of experience in Aviation Safety. He earned his BA from Miami University of Ohio, his MA from Ohio State University, and his Ph.D. from Saint Louis University. Today, this expert is a Certified Flight Instructor, an Airline Transport Pilot, a Ground Instructor, a Remote Pilot, and a Repairman Experimental Aircraft Builder, all through the Federal Aviation Administration. He is also a Master Instructor Emeritus through the National ...
Mr. Robert Lee Gibson has over 57 years of experience in Aeronautical Engineering, Aerodynamics, and Flight Testing. He earned his AAS in Aeronautical Engineering from California Polytechnic State University Cal Poly and his BS in Engineering Sciences from the State University of New York Suffolk County Community College. Currently, he is certified by the Federal Aviation Administration as an Airline Transport Pilot and Flight Instructor. This expert became an astronaut ...
Case: Brock Gaudreault v. Elite Line Services, LLC, No. 12–cv–1177 (JNE/JSM), U.S. District Court, Minnesota; May 14, 2014 Background: Plaintiff Brock Gaudreault was an equipment service employee of Delta Air Lines on May 23, 2010. While preparing to block the…
Right now, there are about 5,000 commercial airplanes in the sky over the United States. Unfortunately, the combination of high speeds, high altitudes, and volatile chemicals make flying an extremely dangerous form of transportation. The odds of dying in a…
This case involves a tourism helicopter crash in Alaska that was allegedly caused by a mechanical part failure. The helicopter was cruising with a pilot and 4 passenger tourists at 800 feet when the pilot felt an impact. As the pilot…
This case involves criminal charges against an engineer who attempted to leak sensitive documents using the U.S. military’s tactical aircrafts. The engineer packed and shipped a number of boxes with manuals containing proprietary information internationally. Authorities arrested the defendant while he was…
This case involves a plane crash that occurred during a flight lesson. The plaintiff was a flight instructor operating a high-winged, light aircraft, when the equipment allegedly failed and the plane crashed, killing the instructor. It appeared that this accident…
This case involves a pilot that died in a plane crash. At the time of the crash, the pilot was 63 years old with 30 years of aviation experience. The plane the pilot was flying had been serviced several weeks before…
This case involves three individuals and a pilot who were all killed in an airplane crash. The aircraft was a PA28-236 Dakota owned by the deceased pilot. The plane departed at 2:15 pm from northern Montana en route to central…
This case involves a fatal plane crash in Montana. The pilot was an elderly female with 30 years of aviation experience at the time of the accident. The route was only 4 hours and she had flown it before. The…
This case involves a child who suffered severe neurological damage from inhaling toxic fumes that entered an aircraft cabin on a commercial flight from Chicago to Seattle. The air used to pressurize the aircraft cabin of the plane was redirected from the…
This case involves several pilots that perished in a commercial aircraft fire. The fire occurred at an industrial gas dispensing station. As one of the pilots was dispensing the gas, the pump sparked and caused the plane to catch on…
This case involves an alleged product defect in a comprehensive aeronautics sensor suite by the defendant, where the manufacturer’s fuel cell would malfunction intermittently and negate the aircraft’s ability to monitor its surroundings. The malfunction was, claimed the plaintiff, a violation…