----------------------------Original message---------------------------- ---------------------------- Forwarded with Changes --------------------------- >From: [log in to unmask] at @UCSD >Date: 4/3/98 11:12AM >To: larry cruse at UCSDLIBRARY >Subject: [Aircraft List] Map maker sued (fwd) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- =A0 April 3, 1998 Web posted at: 10:34 a.m. EST (1534 GMT) DENVER (AP) -- The families of some of those killed when Commerce Secretary Ron Brown's plane crashed have sued Jeppesen Sanderson, claiming the Colorado company's map used= by pilots put the plane on a collision course. The April 1996 crash of the plane into a mountain near Dubrovnik, Croa= tia, and the subsequent deaths were caused by the "defective, unreasonably dangerous and unsafe condition" = of the Jeppesen chart, the lawsuit claims. The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Denver Thursday, also cla= ims "the Jeppesen chart listed a minimum descent altitude for the approach which was too low and put ... the aircraft on a collision course with the mountain." Brown and 34 others died when the plane crashed on a flight from Tuzla= , Bosnia, to the Cilipi Airport near Dubrovnik. Eight families filed the lawsuit. The lawsuit says that the U.S. Air Force pilots flying the military version of a Boeing 737-200 aircraft were misguided by the Jeppesen chart as they made their landing approach to = the airport. The plane crashed into a mountain 1.8 miles northeast of the airport. The lawsuit claims the chart's defects included its failure to inform = the pilots that only aircraft equipped with two non-directional beacon (NDB) navigator radio receivers could safely= make the approach; failure to properly list the NDB stations that the crew was required to use to make the approach; failure to warn the pilots of the dangers and risks of the approach procedure; and violation of establish= ed aviation standards for landing approach charts. "In producing the ... approach chart, (Jeppesen) substantially changed= the procedures promulgated by the Republic of Croatia for the NDB Runway 12 approach to Cilipi Airport," = said the suit. Families of the victims are asking for damages ranging from $10,000 to= $30,000. _________________________________________________ Tom Robison [log in to unmask] =