{"id":337368,"date":"2025-12-26T09:31:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T23:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/airbus-lawsuit-victims-families-deadly-news-helicopter-crash\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T09:31:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T23:31:16","slug":"airbus-facing-lawsuit-from-victims-families-of-deadly-news-helicopter-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=337368","title":{"rendered":"Airbus Facing Lawsuit From Victims&#8217; Families Of Deadly News Helicopter Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Widows of two different crew members who were killed during a fatal helicopter crash in December 2023 have elected to sue <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"58499\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/airbus\/\"  >Airbus<\/a><\/span>, claiming that a dangerous design defect caused the fatal accident. Rosalyn Collins, the widow of pilot Monroe Smith, and Elaine Dougherty, the widow of photographer Christopher Dougherty, filed this case in Philadelphia&#8217;s Court of Common Pleas shortly before the tragic accident&#8217;s second anniversary. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new lawsuit raises new safety-related questions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[426,396,1909,16569,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-337368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airbus","category-aircraft","category-aircraft-manufacturers","category-manufacturers","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=337368"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":337370,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337368\/revisions\/337370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=337368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=337368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=337368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}