Judge of North -Carolina recommends $ 50 million for the death of helicopter crash

Charlotte, NC (AP) -A judge in North Carolina has ordered $ 50 million to be paid to the family of a meteorologist at Charlotte TV station who died in a helicopter accident three years ago after he owned and operated the business that owned and operated the aircraft in the wrongful death of his widow. After a witness hearing earlier this week, Judge Forrest Bridges, the state’s Supreme Court, issued a sentence on Thursday in which insurers for the Total Traffic & Weather Network, iHeartCommunications and iHeartmedia were made to make the payment within the next two months. WBTV meteorologist Jason Myers and pilot Chip Tayag died in November 2022 after the Robinson crashed R44 helicopter next to a Charlotte area. According to the National Transportation Safety Board, the purpose of the flight was to provide Myers video training on a simulated news release. Jillian Myers initially sued the businesses and a maintenance facility in March 2023 for the death of her 41-year-old husband, with whom they had four children. The maintenance facility was later removed as a defendant. In a report from the National Transport Safety Council, last year determined that the likely cause of the accident was insufficient inspections, which led to an eventual loose from hardware and the subsequent loss of helicopter control. An after-crash investigation of the flight controls showed that hardware that must have been linked to the main rotor was disconnected, disconnected and the connecting hardware was missing, the final NTSB report said. Thursday’s command of Bridges said the plaintiffs experts confirmed and expanded the NTSB to find that the accident was “due to operational and maintenance errors committed by the remaining defendants. found, was a fair and reasonable valuation of the settlement – together with accumulated interest. Handed, Rang Thursday. grew up, WBTV said at the time of his death. on Interstate 77 and thus saved the lives of managers.