ST. LOUIS (AP) – An appeals court has restored $28 million in punitive damages to the relatives of five people who were killed when a skydiving plane crashed shortly after taking off from a rural Missouri airport.
Relatives of five of the victims filed suit against Doncasters Inc. Evidence presented at trial showed that the London-based company made a defective part that caused the right engine of the DeHavilland DHC-6 Twin Otter to blow up shortly after takeoff July 29, 2006. The family of the sixth victim of the crash at the Sullivan airport, about 60 miles southwest of St. Louis, did not join the lawsuit.
