The family of a teenage girl seriously injured when a Navy parachutist crash-landed into spectators during San Francisco Fleet Week last year has filed a lawsuit against the city and event organizers, alleging negligence and unsafe conditions at the 2024 air show.
The complaint, filed Friday in San Francisco Superior Court, accuses the city, the San Francisco Fleet Week Association and Umbrella Entertainment Group, which operates as The Air Show Network, of failing to maintain proper safety measures during the U.S. Navy’s Leap Frogs parachute demonstration.
“Defendants, and each of them, breached their duty of care to Plaintiffs by negligently and carelessly operating, controlling, and/or supervising the parachute demonstration, including but not limited to: failing to ensure the US Navy had properly trained paratroopers doing jumps with supervisors present; failing to monitor and assess weather conditions; failing to establish adequate landing zones; failing to warn the public of the dangers of sitting near the landing zone; creating a false zone of safety for Plaintiffs,” the filing states…