$581,000 for Plane Crash Death
Survivors of a 39 year old Toms River man killed in a midair collision over Burlington Township settled a wrongful death suit on Jan 27 for $581,000. Angelos George, a US Navy civilian engineering program manager was one of 11 people killed on Aug 8 2000, when the Piper Navajo he was riding in collided with a Piper Seminole flown by a student pilot and an instructor.
The National Transportation Safety Board found each pilot at fault for not seeing the other plane.
(This information was obtained from the New Jersey Law Journal)