Family of pilot killed in midair collision sues Kemper Aviation
This entry was posted on 6/19/2008 7:38 AM and is filed under Personal Injury.
A recently shuttered flight school is facing a wrongful death lawsuit brought by the family of a student who died last year in a midair collision.
The December crash that killed Cleon Alvares, 25, and another pilot was one in a series of three fatal accidents involving Kemper Aviation in a five-month span. The flight school west of Lantana closed after the third crash, which killed four, including Kemper's co-owner Jeff Rozelle.
Alvares' family accuses the flight school of failing to properly repair and maintain its fleet, allowing Alvares to go up in an unsafe single-engine Cessna 152, according to the Broward Circuit Court case filed last week. Alvares, an engineer from Mumbai, India, collided with a Piper Twin Comanche piloted by Harry Duckworth, 56, of Waverly, Pa., at about 2,000 feet over the
Everglades near Parkland.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/southflorida/sfl-flbkemper0614sbjun14,0,1070788.story 
