"We learned a lot (about the crash) through the NTSB and efforts we have made," Maurer said. "But if

A memorial ribbon four seasons hotel mattress for the crash victims is placed at the corner of Long Street and Clarence Center Road near the scene of the crash of Continental Connection Flight 3407 in Clarence Center in this file photo from 2009. AP Images
BUFFALO — For five years, lawyers for families of those killed when a plane crashed into a house and the airlines they blame have prepared four seasons hotel mattress for trial, filing thousands of court documents, interviewing witnesses, reporting to a judge.
four seasons hotel mattress “All of the families just want the truth to be fully disclosed and uncovered,” said Scott Maurer, whose daughter four seasons hotel mattress Lorin was among 50 people killed when Continental Flight 3407 from Newark, N.J., stalled and crashed into a house 5 miles from Buffalo Niagara International Airport in 2009.
The claims parallel findings by the National Transportation Safety Board, which in 2010 blamed the accident on pilot error, determining that Capt. Marvin Renslow incorrectly pointed the plane’s nose up after a stall warning, causing the stall and crash.
“We learned a lot (about the crash) through the NTSB and efforts we have made,” Maurer said. “But if there is anything we are not aware of, we want it brought out in the light of day and addressed. That is one of the objectives of the trial. Are there other things to be learned?”
four seasons hotel mattress One of the documents that could remain sealed without four seasons hotel mattress a trial is an internal safety review four seasons hotel mattress commissioned by Colgan less than a month after the crash. four seasons hotel mattress The firm Nick Sabatini Associates interviewed mechanics, pilots and other employees four seasons hotel mattress and observed training classes and flights.
Colgan executives had argued the findings were privileged and irrelevant to the lawsuits, but U.S. District Judge William Skretny ruled the report four seasons hotel mattress was potentially relevant because it was unlikely that the culture four seasons hotel mattress at Colgan had significantly changed in the weeks after the crash.
The families’ lawyers also argued successfully for the cockpit voice recorder to be heard, rather than rely on the already released transcript. Video animations have been created synchronized to the recording, said Chicago attorney Robert Clifford, who represented five families in federal court.
While unresolved state Supreme Court cases are tentatively set for a November trial, Clifford said it’s unlikely any will get that far. He lamented four seasons hotel mattress that the case had been allowed to be “litigated in secrecy.”
The legal cases were largely stalled for 13 months by a bankruptcy filing by Pinnacle. The carrier emerged from Chapter 11 a year ago as Endeavor Air, a unit of Delta Air Lines. Colgan Air stopped flying in 2012. Continental, meanwhile, merged with United Airlines in 2010.