$3 Million Jury Award in United Express Commuter Crash in Quincy, Illinois

April 24, 2003 - A St. Clair County, Illinois jury awarded $3 million to the family of a pilot that was killed when a United Express Beech 1900c, collided with a Beachcraft King Air A90 at the intersection of runways 4 and 13 at Quincy's Baldwin Field on November 19, 1996. Both pilots and the ten passengers aboard the United Express flight, as well as the two pilots on the King Air, died as a result of the crash.

David E. Rapoport and Paul D. Richter of Rapoport Law Offices, P.C. represented the family of the King Air pilot that was awarded damages. After the verdict, Mr. Rapoport commented that "this crash would not have happened if the United Express flight crew had followed the standard pattern approach to the active runway and the King Air pilot in command had not decided to take off twenty-four seconds before the crash with another aircraft on short final approach to a conflicting runway. The Great Lakes crew pushed its way in by choosing to land on an intersecting runway even though it was known that two other aircraft were taxiing and intending to take off on the active runway, and one had announced it was taking that runway for take off. They both cut it too close."

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