Blame game: Fatal Scottsdale Airport plane crash draws more lawsuits

Just more than a year after a fatal plane crash involving a private jet at Scottsdale Airport, everybody involved seems to be blaming everyone else for the accident. Despite the finger-pointing, all of those people seem to agree that Scottsdale is also at fault.

Last week Phoenix New Times reported on two lawsuits over the Feb. 10, 2025, plane crash, in which a Learjet owned by Motley Crue singer Vince Neil veered off the runway and hit a parked Gulfstream, killing the first plane’s pilot. (Neil was not on board.) Now two more lawsuits have been filed related to the crash — including one by Chromed in Hollywood, the Neil-backed company that owned the wayward jet.

Those four lawsuits form something of a circular firing squad. Defendants in one suit are plaintiffs in another, each saying responsibility lies with the other parties. But all four lawsuits also name Scottsdale, which owns and operates the airport, as a defendant…

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