A rough landing is getting an airline sued. A Florida woman is suing US Airways after she claims that she was injured during a rough landing at Tampa International Airport.
Nancy Linker, 48, says in the lawsuit that she had to be hospitalized after a flight from Philadelphia in June 2009. She claims the front tires of US Airways Flight 1241 blew out when the plane touched down. The lawsuit filed in Hillsborough County Circuit Court says that the plane's front gear collapsed, causing to it slam "hard onto the runway with tremendous force," the Tampa Bay Times reports.
Linker is now seeking damages for negligence. The lawsuit doesn't specify what sort of injuries Linker sustained, but it says that she was disfigured and is no longer able to work and earn money.
US Airways would not comment on the case as spokesman Bill McGlashen says the airline hasn't reviewed the lawsuit yet.
The Tampa International Airport runway was closed for nearly eight hours following the incident. At the time, the airline reported that there were no injuries.
Billy Mays, the advertisement salesperson, had also been on the flight. He had told a local television station, "All of a sudden as we hit, you know, it was just the hardest hit, all the things from the ceiling started dropping. It hit me on the head, but I got a hard head."
Mays died the next day from heart disease. It is not clear if the flight had anything to do with his death but there was no evidence of head trauma from the landing.
A Southwest Airlines flight had a similar landing recently. A flight from Nashville had a landing gear failure as it landed at LaGuardia Airport in New York. Several passengers and crew members were treated for injuries after the landing.
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