Over the last 72 hours new coverage in Nova Scotia has been dominated by stories involving the crash (or “hard landing” as Air Canada prefers to describe it ) of Air Canada flight 624.. Over the last 72 hours new coverage in Nova Scotia has been dominated by stories involving the crash (or “hard landing” as Air Canada prefers to describe it ) of Air Canada flight 624.. Most of the coverage has revolved around how the crash happened, why it happened, and concerns about the delayed response to passengers who had to wait on the tarmac for rescue. But Fifty years later, in the 2003 of the Supreme Court of Canada addressed the issue again in The Supreme Court of Canada used the same “visible and provable illness” test in its subsequent decision in So since the 1950’s compensation for mental distress in Canada has required that a plaintiff who suffered injury as a result of negligence prove that any mental harm was a consequence of a physical injury or that the mental distress was a recognized psychiatric injury as defined in psychiatric diagnostic tools like the DSMV.In 2008 the Supreme Court of Canada heard the appeal in The Supreme Court of Canada accepted that psychological injury can, in some cases, give rise to damages.
Posted on June 17, 2015. Putting that all together, that was a crash landing. OTTAWA, ONTARIO--(Marketwired - Mar 29, 2015) - … Air Canada flight 624 rests off the runway after landing at Stanfield International Airport in Halifax on Sunday, March. Sign up for free daily email updates from the aviation industry’s top news source.
No matter what you call it, Air Canada Flight 624's "hard landing" was a dramatic event, resulting in collapsed landing gear, a ripped-off engine and a severed nose cone after the jet began its skid 335 metres short of a snow-strewn Halifax runway. However, as media reports have indicated, few of the passengers appear to have suffered any significant physical injuries. Share. They did not notice that the aircraft had drifted below the planned vertical descent angle flight profile.Because no emergency was expected, passengers were not in the brace position and most injuries were consistent with being unprepared for impact. "In 1997, Air Canada staff at the wreck site of Flight 646 painted over the carrier's logo the day after it lost control and slammed into a tree on arrival in Fredericton.Of the 42 people on board that day, nine were seriously injured in the accident. Note that I am not saying they … TSB later classed it as a "loss of control on go-around" or "rejected landing" event.The safety regulator describes other accidents as "crash on take-off," or "collisions" with terrain, trees and water.The framing of Sunday's accident as something other than a crash is likely a public relations consideration for Air Canada.There's otherwise "no legal basis" for how a crash or a hard landing would impact investigations, whether for insurance or Transportation Safety Board purposes, said Ehsan Monfared, a legal student with the Toronto aviation law firm Clark & Company. Official Accident Report Index Page Report Number NTSB/AAR-86/02 Access Number PB86-910402 Report Title Air Canada Flight 797, McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32, C- FTLU, Greater Cincinnati International Airport, Covington, Kentucky, June 2, 1983 (Supersedes The aircraft was extensively damaged, having lost all landing gear and its port engine. "If you've ever been through a landing that comes down with a thump, there's no damage or anything, but the pilots are saying, 'Damn, we just had a hard landing,'" said Dupont, who worked as an accident investigator for seven years before joining Transport Canada.For its part, the Airline Transport Association of Canada dismisses the term "crash landing" as an oxymoron.
Over the last 72 hours new coverage in Nova Scotia has been dominated by stories involving the crash (or Most of the coverage has revolved around how the crash happened, why it happened, and concerns about the delayed response to passengers who had to wait on the tarmac for rescue.As a lawyer who practices class action litigation I have to say I was surprised to see reports in the media less than 72 hours after the crash that two firms in Halifax are considering filing a class action on behalf of the passengers of AC624.Class actions are a tremendously flexible tool that provides access to justice for plaintiffs who have claims that may otherwise be too expensive to bring to court.But is a class action really the best option for the passengers for AC624?There were 133 passengers on board the aircraft. All 100 passengers and 9 crew on board were killed, and at the time it was Canada's second deadliest aviation accident.