OTHER NEWS - May 11, 1995
<i> Times Staff and Wire Reports</i>
Firm, Executive Face Fraud Indictment in Plane Crash: U.S. Aviation Underwriters and its former top executive were indicted on fraud charges that accuse them of misrepresenting responsibility for the 1987 crash in California of a Pacific Southwest Airlines jet that killed 43 people. The crash occurred after a disgruntled USAir employee armed with a gun evaded airport security and boarded the jet, killing his former supervisor and the plane’s two pilots in mid-flight. The federal indictment in New York claims that U.S. Aviation and John Brennan fraudulently allocated all responsibility for the crash entirely to USAir and steered responsibility away from Ogden Allied Corp., which provided airport security.
