O'Reilly & Danko and Stewarts of London Obtain Unprecedented Rapid Settlement for 14 Families in Crash of Adam Air #574 Off Indonesia January 1
Posted on: Wednesday, 18 April 2007, 12:00 CDT
SAN MATEO, Calif., April 18 /PRNewswire/ -- The O'Reilly & Danko law firm of San Mateo, California, and Stewarts of London have announced that an unprecedented settlement has already been achieved, only three months after the crash, for 14 families who lost loved ones in the crash of Adam Air flight #574 off Sulawesi Island in Indonesia on January 1, 2007.
Adam Air flight #574 left Juanda Airport, Surabaya, capital of the province of East Java, with 96 passengers and six crew members on board, on a two-hour flight to Sam Ratulangi Airport, Manado, on Sulawesi Island. The pilot had been warned that the weather was stormy but the plane left on schedule. Apparently, the plane encountered crosswinds of more than 80 mph over the Makassar Strait.
Boeing 737 aircraft have previously experienced rudder problems in accidents at Colorado Springs, Pittsburgh and, more recently, over the Red Sea off Sharm-el-Shiekh. It is not known if this particular aircraft had the necessary retrofits.
The plane disappeared from air traffic control in South Sulawesi about an hour into the two-hour flight. The wreckage of the plane was finally located about 60 miles off the coast of Sulawesi. Everyone on board was lost.
Adam Air originally agreed to retrieve the black boxes, which were located by the U.S. Navy. However, the airline has taken no steps to retrieve the boxes and they are probably impossible to find now.
"We were very pleased to be able to assist these grieving families in obtaining a settlement so soon after the disaster of January 1," comments Terry O'Reilly of O'Reilly & Danko. "Usually these kinds of cases drag on for years, but in this case everyone on both sides wanted to arrive at a settlement quickly and give some resolution to the families involved." O'Reilly & Danko continues to be retained by Indonesian families and hopes that a fair result can be obtained for all the victims' families.
O'Reilly & Danko
CONTACT: Patricia Bernstein, +1-713-838-8400, orpbernstein@bernsteinandassoc.com , for O'Reilly & Danko
Source: PRNewswire
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