In a rare criminal action stemming from a jet crash, federal authorities on Wednesday announced charges against five company officials and a pilot associated with the crash of a luxury charter jet at New Jersey's Teterboro Airport.
The indictments allege the six routinely concealed dangerous fueling and weight-distribution practices that made their aircraft unsafe, CNN reported.
On February 2, 2005, a jet operated by now-defunct Platinum Jet Management of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, failed to lift off at Teterboro and careened across U.S. Route 46, hitting cars along the way before slamming into a clothing warehouse.
The two pilots were seriously injured, as were two occupants in a vehicle. Nine others on the plane and one in the building received minor injuries.