• Case
    Crash of a Beech Baron in Lafayette Parish, Louisiana on October 22, 2025 Shows Similarities to Crash of Beech Baron in 2019 near Kerrville, Texas

    On October 22, 2025, a Beech G58 Baron aircraft, registration N16PV, crashed in a field near the corner of Gloria Switch Road and Louisiana 93 in Lafayette Parish, Louisiana, killing all three occupants aboard.

    Attorneys

    Richard Warren Mithoff.

    Year

    October 23, 2025

  • Case
    Did Boeing, aviation industry heed lessons of 2009 Air France crash?

    The details of the tragedy were strikingly familiar to Mithoff, a prominent Houston trial lawyer who had represented the family of an American couple killed in the 2009 crash of an Airbus A330-200 operating as Air France Flight 447. In both cases, a sensor had provided incorrect data to automated operating systems, triggering a confusing cacophony of warnings and alarms.

    PublicationHouston Chronicle
    Attorneys

    Warner V. Hocker.

    Year

    August 22, 2019

  • Case
    Family of Americans killed in Air France Air Bus crash sue

    The families of two Americans killed in the crash of an Air France air bus flight off the coast of South America in June filed a lawsuit claiming the airline and the plane’s various manufacturers knew the aircraft had defective parts that could have caused the accident.

    PublicationThe Seattle Times
    Attorneys

    Richard Warren Mithoff, Warner V. Hocker.

    Year

    September 30, 2009

  • Case
    Pump failure implicated in plane crashes

    Vacuum pumps, which power cockpit instruments in small airplanes, have contributed to at least 82 deaths in 36 crashes since 1980, including a 1998 crash in New Orleans that killed three Denton County residents, safety reports indicate.

    PublicationStar-Telegram
    Attorneys

    Richard Warren Mithoff, Janie L. Jordan.

    Year

    March 2, 2001