Feds settle suit for $2M after taxiing skydiving plane hits Marine Osprey aircraft

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Feds settle suit for $2M after taxiing skydiving plane hits Marine Osprey aircraft
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The government had originally sought more than $5.7 million, according to some reports

May 30, 2020, was one of them, with the mercury in the 70s and San Diego's famous blue skies shining overhead.The problem was, at Brown Field in San Diego, a United States Marine Corps MV-22 Osprey aircraft was not in the air but, rather, was parked and empty, and a De Havilland DHC-6-100 Twin Otter being used for skydiving was on the ground too, taxiing, when the Twin Otter, whose props were rotating, crashed into the Osprey, The damage was extensive to both aircraft.

The Twin Otter had been rented out to Tac Air — a self-described"world-class military air operations parachute proficiency and tactical training company — by Kapowsin, a skydiving outfit, both of which were named as defendants in the suit, as were Brown Field Aviation Ventures and the Lancair Corporation.

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