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Punitive damages trial against airline possible

Attorneys for victims of a 1999 American Airlines jetliner crash at Little Rock say a federal report to be released Tuesday should clear the way for a punitive damages case against the airline.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2001/10/20/plane-crash-trial.htm

NTSB gets final report on American Airlines crash in Little Rock

http://www.nj.com/newsflash/washington/index.ssf?/newsflash/get_story.ssf?/cgi-free/getstory_ssf.cgi?a0436_BC_LittleRockCrash&&news&newsflash-washington

Distracted by rapidly deteriorating weather conditions and fatigued by a long work day, the flight crew of American Airlines Flight 1420, which crashed at the Little Rock Airport in June 1999, forgot to turn on the automatic spoiler system that would have stopped the plane before it ran out of runway, federal investigators have concluded.

http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/10/23/little.rock.crash/index.html