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1. Egypt Air Flight 990 Crash 31.10.99
An Egypt Air Boeing 767 crashed off the East Coast of the USA on 31 October 1999 killing all 217 passengers. Mr Nunan represents 52 Egyptian families in this crash.

2. Silk Air Crash 19.12.97
A Silk Air Boeing 737 crashed into a Sumatran river in Indonesia on 19 December 1997. Mr Nunan’s clients include Australian and Indonesian families.

3. Garuda Indonesia Airlines Flight 152 Crash near Medan Indonesia 26.09.97
An Airbus A300 aircraft being operated as Garuda Indonesia Flight GA-152 flying from Jakarta to Medan crashed on 26 September 1997. Mr Nunan acted for 22 Indonesian families who lost loved ones in this crash. These cases settled in September/October 2003 with substantial payments made to the plaintiffs.

4. Beechcraft King Air VH-SKC Crash Burketown Queensland - 05.09.00
A Beechcraft King Air operated by Central Air Pty Ltd took off from Perth, Western Australia on 5 September 2000 destined for Leonora, WA. It crashed after travelling almost the breadth of Australia before impacting in Queensland killing all 8 passengers and crew. Mr Nunan is acting for two families of victims of this unusual crash.

5. Airfast Services Indonesian DC3 Crash Pekanbaru Indonesia 28.04.81
A DC3 carrying oil drillers returning to their oilrig off Sumatra crashed short of Pekanbaru airport resulting in the death or injury of the passengers and crew. Mr Nunan acted for an injured Australian passenger and was successful in achieving a substantial damages claim from the defendant.

6. Bell 206 Jet Ranger Crash Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia 03.03.91
A Seaworld Jet Ranger Helicopter operated by the theme park operator, SeaWorld crashed on 3 March 1991 at the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, killing all five passengers and pilot. Mr Nunan represented all the family members of the victims and pilot against Bell Helicopter.

7. Bell 206 Jet Ranger Crash Pacific Ocean Gladstone, Queensland, Australia 28.07.93
A Bell 206 Jet Ranger operated by Lloyds Helicopters crashed into the sea off Gladstone on 28 July 1993. Mr Nunan acted for the pilot and passengers who were killed or injured in this crash.

8. Bell 212 Jet Ranger Crash in the ocean off Indonesia 1993
A Bell 212 operated by an Indonesian company lost power and ditched into the sea off an Indonesian island. Mr Nunan acted for the pilot and passengers who were killed or injured in this crash.

9. Transavia Air Truck Crash Tasmania, Australia 1992
The pilot of this aircraft had the terrifying experience of loosing a propeller blade in flight whilst cropdusting in Northwest Tasmania, Australia in 1992. Mr Nunan acted for the pilot in an action against the propeller’s manufacturer, Hartzell Propeller Inc. of Piqua, Ohio.

10. Lockheed C130 Hercules Crash Hong Kong Airport 1994
A Hercules contracted to the UN crashed on takeoff from Hong Kong Airport in 1994 killing 6 and badly injuring another 6. Mr Nunan acted for the families of the 12 Indonesian crew who were killed or injured in this crash.

11. Robinson R22 Helicopter Crash North Queensland Australia 1993.
An R 22 crashed whilst the pilot was mustering cattle near Charters Towers in North Queensland in 1993. Mr Nunan acted for the family of the pilot who died in this crash.

12. Garuda Indonesia Airlines Flight GA 421 Crash Central Java Indonesia10.01.2002.
A Garuda Boeing 737 - 300 Registered Number PK-GWA experienced a double engine flameout when the aircraft entered severe turbulence and heavy storm and rain on 16 January, 2002. The pilot was unable to restart the engines and with great skill, crash landed the plane on a river near Klaten, Central Java. Of the sixty crew and passengers, one crew was killed with forty-four passengers and crew injured. Mr Nunan acts for twenty-seven Indonesian families in this crash.

13. KAL Flight 801 Crash 05.08.97
A Korean Airline (KAL Flight 801) Boeing 747 crashed at Guam on 5 August, 1997. Mr Nunan acts for Korean families in actions in the USA and Guam.

14. Bell 407 Crash Palawan Philippines 18.05.01
A Bell 407 owned by the Jaka Group crashed on 18 May 2001 into a bamboo thicket in Barangay Manalo, 40 km north of Puerto Princesa, Palawan Province. Mr Nunan is acting for 3 families of the 6 crew and passengers killed in this crash. The passengers include the mother-in-law of the Governor of Palawan Province.

15. Lion Air Flight 538 Crash Adisumarmo Airport, Solo, Indonesia 30.11.04
A MD 82 Aircraft registered number PK-LMN was attempting to land at Adisumarmo airport, Solo, Indonesia on 30 November 2004. It skidded off the end of the runway, crashing through a concrete wall ending up in a local cemetery 150metres from the runway end resulting in the death of twenty five passengers and two crew members with fifty five passengers severely injured, sixty two slightly injured and twenty uninjured. Mr Nunan in conjunction with Floyd Wisner of Wisner Law Firm Inc of Illinios, USA acts for thirty six clients either being relatives of those who died or those injured in the accident. Proceedings have been commenced in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinios on behalf of the clients against Boeing.

16. Transair Fairchild Industries Metroliner VH-TFU Crash
Iron Range National Park Lockhart River, North Queensland 7 May 2005
A Fairchild Industries Inc Metroliner CA 227-DC was descending to land at Lockhart River carrying two pilots and thirteen passengers crashed into mountainous terrain north east of Lockhart River. The wreckage lay in dense tropical rainforest at an elevation of 369meters. Mr Nunan in conjunction with Floyd Wisner of Wisner Law Firm Inc of Illinios, USA acts for thirteen families of those who died in this crash. Proceedings have been commenced against Hamilton Sundstrand Corp in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinios, claiming that the Ground Proximity Warning System (GPWS) manufactured by the Defendant was defective.

Note: In recent times, Judge William D. Maddux of the Circuit Court of Cook County on 5 September 2008 dismissed the defendants motion to dismiss the claims on the basis of forum non conveniens. The defendants had filed a motion to the affect that they were of the view that Cook County in Illinois, USA was not the appropriate forum for the hearing of the plaintiff's claims. Defendants motion dismissed by Judge Maddux (688KB PDF)

17. Adam Air Flight KL Crash near Sulawesi, Indonesia 1.01.07
Adam Air Boeing B-737-4Q8 registered number PK KKW went missing between Surabaya and Mandano, Indonesia on 1 January 2007 whilst carrying 102 passengers and crew. It is believed that the aircraft crashed into the sea. The bodies of those that died and the wreckage has not been recovered. Mr Nunan in conjunction with Floyd Wisner of Wisner Law Firm Inc of Illinios, USA acts for three families of those that died in this accident.

18. Garuda Flight GA 200 Crash Yogyakata Jakarta Airport 7 March 2007
A Boeing 737 400 aircraft registered number PK GZC operated by Garuda Indonesian Airlines crashed and burst into flames whilst attempting to land at Yogyakata airport at 7am on 7 March 2007. At the time the aircraft was believed to be carrying 140 passengers and crew. It is believed that seventy six passengers and crew survived the accident. Five Australians were amongst those who died in the crash.

A number of other Australians were injured. Mr Nunan has joined a coalition of international lawyers, being James Healy-Pratt of Stewarts Lawyers of London, Terry O'Reilly of O'Reilly & Danko of California USA and Floyd Wisner of Wisner Law Firm of Illinois USA to represent the Australian claimant's whose loved one died or who were injured in the crash. As a result of meetings with insurers of Garuda GA200 in December of 2007 and February of 2008 all cases relating to the Australians who died or were injured in the accident were settled for substantial payments.

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