Jury awards $116M to the family of a passenger killed in a New York no-door helicopter crash

The jury awarded $116 million for the death of Trevor Cadigan, highlighting the negligence in the safety measures of the helicopter flight that led to five tragic deaths.

Family lawyer Gary C. Robb described the helicopter as 'a death trap' and criticized misleading information about the safety harnesses, which were ill-suited for aviation emergencies.

The jury assigned fault to FlyNYON for 42%, Liberty Helicopters for 38%, and Dart Aerospace for 20%, emphasizing a shared accountability in the tragic accident.

The NTSB found that FlyNYON’s hard-to-escape harnesses and exploitation of regulatory loopholes contributed significantly to the lives lost in the fatal helicopter crash.

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