Avoid Cart Injuries

One of the most common Mississippi airplane accidents is injury due to rolling beverage carts used by flight attendants to serve food and drink during flights. In fact, a 1998 study showed that up to 32 percent of flight attendant injuries come from hand cart accidents. While flight attendants are covered by workers' compensation while on the job, passengers are not so lucky. Rolling carts can run over toes and fingers or ram into passengers to the extent of dislodging prostheses or causing bruising or broken bones. While early cases were banned from prosecution through the 1978 Airline Deregulation Act, more recent Supreme Court rulings have opened this area to litigation, allowing passengers involved in a Mississippi airplane accident to attempt to collect damages for their beverage cart injuries.

Take Care With Overhead Bins

The overhead bins used to store carry-on luggage also pose a substantial risk to passengers. Up to 4,500 passengers each year sustain injuries when carry-on luggage falls out of overhead bins, causing head injury and other damage, up to and including permanent spinal or shoulder injury. The aisle seat passenger is at the highest risk for carry-on falls since they sit in close proximity to falling items. However, other passengers can also be hurt, before and after the flight, when overhead bins have been opened and shifting luggage falls out.

While airlines bear part of the responsibility for falling carry-on luggage and should secure all carry-on baggage before the flight, faulty design is often to blame. If you are injured in an accident involving carry-on luggage bins, contact a Mississippi airplane accident attorney immediately. Your Mississippi airplane accident lawyer can help you decide whether to file a negligence suit against the airline, a products liability suit against the manufacturer of the airplane and the people involved in marketing the airplane, or all of the above. These suits can help you recoup the costs of your injury, time lost from work, and/or future medical care.

If you have been injured on a Mississippi airplane, take care to document your injuries and contact a Mississippi airplane accident lawyer as soon as possible. The Mississippi statute of limitations for personal injury is three years for injury resulting from negligence. The clock begins ticking at the time you realize you are injured, so don't waste time! Failure to file an airplane accident lawsuit on time may keep you from recovering any money for your injuries, no matter how severe. Your Mississippi airplane accident attorney may also be able to help you recover damages for injuries sustained during crash landings, slip-and-fall accidents, and other incidents. If you are interested in a free case evaluation by an experienced Mississippi airplane accident lawyer, fill out our case evaluation form. There is no cost and no obligation.