The Navy has said debris in the engine is the suspected cause
Several accidents have happened in recent months involving Marine Corps herve leger dresses for cheap training in Southern California, including a fatal accident in July.
In August, two Marines were ejected from their F/A-18 Hornet fighter jet as it plunged toward the Pacific Ocean. The two Marines spent four hours in the dark, chilly ocean before they were rescued. Both suffered broken bones and are undergoing rehabilitation at a San Diego hospital.
In July, a decorated Marine from western New York was killed during a training exercise when his UH-1Y helicopter went down in a remote section of Camp Pendleton, north of San Diego.
Another Hornet sustained at least $1 million damage when its engine caught fire on March 30 aboard the USS John C. Stennis during a training exercise about 100 miles off the San Diego coast. Eight sailors, a Marine and two civilians were injured.
The Navy has said debris in the engine is the suspected cause of that fire
The Bavis family’s lawyers sharply disputed that contention in their filing on Friday. They charged that United had a history of security failures and of not heeding warnings from one of its executives that it should improve staffing and training.
They also described the Logan checkpoint as being staffed on Sept. 11 by screeners who in some cases could not speak English and did not know what Al Qaeda and Mace were.
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The wrongful-death and injury suits represented only a small fraction of the total number of victims. Thousands of other victims and families received relatively quick and uncontested settlements, totaling more than $7 billion, through a special compensation fund created by Congress.
Although the individual legal settlements are secret, a court document filed in 2009, when all but three suits had been resolved, said that about $500 million had been paid out to resolve the claims.
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