Payne stewart plane crash lawsuit
Payne stewart plane crash pilots...
Payne stewart plane crash lawsuit
Payne Stewart family sues airplane owner, operator
ORLANDO -- A year to the day that Payne Stewart died in a bizarre airplane crash in South Dakota, the golfer's family filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the plane's owner and operator.
The lawsuit filed in Orange County Circuit Court by Tracey Stewart and her children seeks an unspecified amount of damages.
The lawsuit accuses Sunjet Aviation Inc.
and Jet Shares One Inc. of negligence. Lawsuits also were filed by the families of three others who died in the crash: Stewart's sport agents, Van Ardan and Robert Fraley, and golf course designer Bruce Borland.
The Learjet's cabin pressure system wasn't properly inspected, maintained or repaired, according to the lawsuit.
In addition, the oxygen supply system and a valve in the engine weren't properly maintained and the plane's crew failed to take proper corrective measures in the emergency, according to the complaint.
"Defendants knew or should have known from the maintenance history