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Update re American Airlines' Plane Crash in Kingston - December 30,2009

Please read our previous post, here, for a background to this post:

The complete body of the American Airlines plane has been removed from the crash site and is still in the hands of the USA's National Transportation Safety Board.

American Airlines (AA) has been returning carry-on bags to passengers and is in the process of returning recovered items from the belly of the plane, to passengers as well. The recovered items are being cleaned before being returned to passengers, however.

AA estimates that it will take approximately 60 days for passengers to receive all their luggage.

Should anyone need further information from AA, the number to call is: 1-800-872-2881.

Jamaica's National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) has been called in to assess damage caused to the shoreline and surrounding sea by an oil spillage from the airplane.

Lieutenant Colonel Oscar Derby, Director General of the Jamaica Civil Aviation Authority (JCAA), has reported that the final report re the plane crash will be ready in about 18 months - 2 years...the norm in the airline industry.

Right now, investigators are preparing a final draft.

In the meantime, Jamaican lawyer, Anthony Hylton, has been requesting that passengers of the crashed American Airlines flight AA331, seek legal assistance before signing any documents re compensation from AA.

...He reportedly already has ten (10) clients from the plane crash.

[I would like to thank lethaltriad for the use of his Youtube inset video of a panoramic view (at dusk) of the crashed American Airlines plane, taken on December 26,2009. The foreground shows the shoreline on which the plane landed, with the front of the aircraft, just metres from the sea].

Gillian

Sources Include

1) Television Jamaica's Nightly News at 7:00 p.m., December 29,2009

2) CVM Television's News Watch at 8:00 p.m., December 29,2009

Update re American Airlines' Plane Crash in Kingston - December 28,2009

Please read our previous posts re the American Airlines' plane crash for a background to this post.

The nose and tail of the crashed American Airlines' plane have been removed to a safe location and are in the custody of the National Transportation Safety Board (USA).

[Technical staff from American Airlines, Boeing, the National Transport Authority (Jamaica), the Civil Aviation Authority (Jamaica), the National Transportation Safety Board (USA) are continuing investigations into the American Airlines crash that occurred Tuesday night (December 22,2009), at the Norman Manley International Airport in Kingston, Jamaica].

The Civil Aviation Authority will close Port Royal Road between 10:00 p.m. tonight and 5:00 a.m. tomorrow, in order to remove the mid-section (including the wings) of the aircraft.

[The plane landed, with it's tail being a few metres away from the road. Please see inset photo to see the plane's tail location in relation to Port Royal Road (where the white police vehicles are parked). The mid-section will be transported on large flat-bed trucks to the location of the nose and tail].

In the meantime, a Jamaican lawyer is questioning the US $5,000 compensation package being offered to the passengers of crashed American Airlines Flight 331.

He says that under International Airline Accident Law, compensation from a plane crash is limitless, and is urging passengers not to sign any documents from American Airlines, requesting that they settle for the US $5,000.

Please enter "american airlines crash compensation" (without quotes) in the Google Search Window, below, to find American Airlines' and other airlines' compensation amounts to crash victims.

Continuing...

Preliminary results from the flight data recorder and voice recorder of the crashed plane, should be known this week.

(I would like to thank rastarazi for the use of his Flickr inset photo above, entitled, "American Airline Plane Crash Lands in Kingston, Jamaica").

Gillian

Sources Include

1) Power 106 FM News at 12:00 p.m., December 29, 2009

2) Various news sources, December 26-28, 2009

Update re American Airlines' Plane Crash in Kingston

Just an update re the American Airlines' Flight 331 Plane Crash in Kingston:

Investigations continue.

100 injured passengers were taken to hospital, treated and released. Only one (1) passenger is still hospitalized following surgery to mend a broken nose.

We should be know by next week, preliminary findings as to the cause of the crash.

American Airlines is compensating passengers to the tune of US $5,000 each, for the inconvenience that passengers have suffered, due to them not having their luggage.

American Airlines handlers and Norman Manley International airport officials are in the process of collecting, tallying and weighing all hand and carry-on luggage...

They are trying to ascertain whether or not overweight hand and carry-on luggage could have contributed to the plane crash.

They will start the collection and tallying of all other luggage, located in the belly of the plane, as soon as they are given the go-ahead to do so.

Please see an important Press Release from American Airlines, regarding the plane crash, here.

(I would like to thank rastariza for the use of his Flickr photo of the crashed American Airlines plane. The inset photo shows where the airplane split in two places - as it's supposed to, in a crash).

Gillian

Sources Include

Television Jamaica, Evening News at 7:00 p.m., December 24,2009