Aviation Law Experts Instructed In Relation To Clutha Tragedy

Legal experts who are now representing the loved ones of a victim of the devastating helicopter crash in Glasgow last month are calling on UK authorities to make vital regulatory changes which should assist the investigation of such accidents and provide quicker answers to both the industry and the families affected.

Irwin Mitchell’s specialist Aviation Law team, ranked by leading legal directories as the leading claimant aviation law practice in the UK, has been instructed to act in relation to The Clutha tragedy on November 29th that claimed the lives of ten people. 

As well as working to secure justice for those affected by the crash, the team is also striving to improve the flight safety of helicopter operations and, as part of this, has launched a campaign demanding for the installation of vital black-box recording equipment to be standard on all commercial passenger-carrying helicopters.

The experts have vast experience representing victims of air accidents across the world and also notably act for victims of the Eurocopter crashes off the coast of Shetland in August and into the North Sea in October 2012.

Their campaigning expertise has also seen them successfully lobby the European Transport Commission on behalf of the families of British passengers killed in the Sita Air crash in Nepal in September 2012.  The European Commission subsequently banned all of Nepal's airlines from flying to or within European airspace until safety standards within the country’s aviation industry reach an acceptable level.