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Business Jet Services Sued In Fatal Crash
Fatal crash on November 22, 2004 of a charter plane scheduled to fly former President George H. Bush to Ecuador has spawned a lawsuit in Dallas County.
The husband of the flight attendant killed in the crash filed the wrongful death lawsuit Monday in the state district court in Dallas County.
William Dunn, whose wife Kristi Dunn died in the crash, filed the suit on behalf of his son and his wife's mother.
Named as a defendant was Business Jet Services Limited, a fixed-base operator based at Dallas Love Field, who was the operator of the aircraft.
Also named were Robert J. Wright, managing partner of Business Jet Services; The Jet Place Incorporated, owner of the aircraft; and the estates of both pilots, Milford Dickson and Michael DeSalvo.
The plane crashed when it hit a light pole along a tollway, about 3.25 miles short of the runway at Houston's William P. Hobby Airport.
The crash killed both pilots, as well as flight attendant Kristi Dunn.
The lawsuit claims that the pilots failed to tune their navigation radios providing instrument guidance for their approach into Hobby, failed to use checklists, failed to monitor altitude and distance from the runway and failed to initiate proper corrective action, according to the suit.
The suit also allges that that Dickson had only flown the aircraft one hour in the six months preceding the trip and the other pilot, DeSalvo, had never flown this particular aircraft or any other similar aircraft before.