Key West Injury Lawyer Blog
Anyone looking to avoid long, traffic-filled drives between Fort Lauderdale and Key West now can thanks to a new direct flight set to take flight starting on Nov. 6.
Spirit Airlines will launch weekly flights on Mondays, Thursdays, Fridays and Sundays from Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport and Key West International Airport. Daily flights will begin on Dec. 18.
Tickets are already available for sale online at the airline’s website.
This follows the recent opening of Concourse A at Key West International Airport, marking the end of more than two years of construction. With the airport’s expansion and new flight paths, the region could see an influx of tourists — and, with that, a rise in potential injuries.
While airline mishaps and occasional crashes dominate headlines, recent data from the National Transportation Safety Board shows that there is no significant increase in overall commercial aviation incidents. There have been just over a dozen commercial safety investigations launched in 2025, these investigations are opened after either a serious injury, fatality, major aircraft damage or other incident that poses a safety risk. These incidents can include engine failures, fires aboard aircrafts or system malfunctions.
There were 46 investigations in all of 2024, the data showed. Since 2000, the first-quarter average, meaning the average number of events occurring from January to March, has been 13.
While flying remains one of the safest modes of transportation, that doesn’t mean that airplane manufacturers, airlines and other companies are not held accountable when incidents do occur. Leesfield & Partners has regularly held these entities accountable.
Leesfield & Partners
Leesfield & Partners is a personal injury law firm with nearly five decades of experience handling cases on behalf of injured clients and their grieving families. With offices in popular tourist destinations such as Orlando, Miami and Key West, Leesfield & Partners attorneys are familiar with every manner of travel-related injury. Our firm’s attorneys have an active resort torts practice area and have represented the victims of hotel accidents, cruise line accidents and those involved in tragic and preventable aviation tragedies.
Our six skilled trial attorneys handle every case with the compassion and knowledge of the law necessary to secure the best possible outcome for every client. Leesfield & partners has secured numerous record and leading verdicts throughout Florida, having a considerable impact on the lives of clients and families in the state.
Injuries and wrongful deaths can occur while aboard small, private jets or on commercial airlines. No matter the venue, Leesfield & Partners attorneys work diligently on behalf of their clients and have secured approximately $30 million in combined aviation verdicts and settlements to date.
Previous Cases
The firm secured a $10 million recovery in a wrongful death case.
Another tragic case involving an airline and the death of our client’s loved one resulted in over $8.5 million secured by Leesfield & Partners attorneys.
A $5.4 million amount was recovered by the firm in an aviation incident in which three people — all of whom were either employees or officers of a distributor of an aircraft corporation — were killed.
One case involved a single-engine airplane crash that killed a pilot and his mother when they were caught up in severe weather. This case was handled by Leesfield & Partners’ Founder and Managing Partner, Ira Leesfield, along with co-counsel Mark A. Sylvester. The defendants included the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) due to their air traffic controllers’ failure to provide important severe weather information to our client’s loved one who was piloting the plane.
Additionally, a service facility, the manufacturer of a component part that powered the flight instrumentation and the plane manufacturer were also named as defendants.
The attorneys were able to settle the case for over $2.8 million.
For a client that was severely injured in a helicopter crash, our attorneys secured a $1.9 million recovery amount.
In a wrongful death case following a terrible Orlando airplane crash, Leesfield & Partners secured over $1.8 million.
An airplane manufacturer was a defendant in another Leesfield & Partners aviation case, which resulted in a $630,000 recovery.
If you or someone you know was involved in an aviation incident, don’t wait. Call a Leesfield & partners attorney today at 800-836-6400 today for a free consultation.
