Loss of consortium lawsuit filed for 15th victim of Louisville UPS plane crash

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- A loss of consortium lawsuit was filed Friday on behalf of the 15th victim of the UPS cargo plane crash in Louisville.

According to a news release, Clifford Law Offices of Chicago and local Louisville attorney Sam Aguiar filed the lawsuit after 50-year-old Alain Colina died on Christmas Day from injuries he suffered from the crash.

Colina was working at Grade A Auto Parts the day of the incident and suffered extreme burns along with other injuries, then died more than seven weeks later in the hospital.

He had a 16-year-old daughter who lives in Cuba.

“The tragedy of this crash continues to unfold, and Clifford Law Offices is now trying to help a young, innocent girl who lost her father navigate the court system through the proper legal channels,” Bradley Cosgrove with Clifford Law Offices said in a news release.

The McDonnell Douglas MD-11, built in 1991, went down around 5:15 p.m. Nov. 4 after its left wing caught fire. The plane was fully loaded with fuel for the nine-hour flight to Honolulu from UPS Worldport at Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport. Fifteen people, including three pilots, died in the crash.

The UPS cargo plane was nearly airborne when a bell sounded in the cockpit, NTSB member Todd Inman said. For the next 25 seconds, the bell rang and the pilots tried to control the aircraft as it barely lifted off the runway, its left wing ablaze and missing an engine, and then plowed into the ground in a spectacular fireball.

Several lawsuits against UPS, General Electric and Boeing are all pending.

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