PINOY Newsmagazine/Philippine News
April 2006
By Ted Regencia
CHICAGO — Family members of the victims of Air Philippines Flight 541 disaster, cleared a legal hurdle after a Chicago appeals court recently allowed their lawsuit to be heard through the courts here.
The First District Illinois Appellate Court affirmed Cook County Circuit Court Judge Kathy A. Flanagan’s earlier ruling, that the case against Illinois-based AAR Aircraft & Engine Group, which leased the ill-fated Boeing 737-200 to Air Philippines, must be tried in Illinois.
Continue reading “Chicago court to hear Air Philippines lawsuit”