Aaliyah's Parents Take Action

15 May 2002

The parents of late R & B singer/actress Aaliyah, sued Virgin Records on May 13, alleging that negligence and recklessness caused the plane crash last year that killed their 22-year-old daughter. The lawsuit, filed in Los Angeles Superior Court on behalf of Diane and Michael Haughton (Aaliyah's parents), also named as defendants several video production companies and Blackhawk International Airways, the company that operated the plane that crashed.
Aaliyah had been in the Bahamas to film a video and was returning to Florida on a charter flight last August when the plane crashed on take off. All nine people aboard the Cessna 402-B aircraft died. Investigators said the twin-engine plane was at least 700 pounds overweight.
The Haughtons allege in their lawsuit that a "dangerous and unsafe configuration" of the Cessna caused the crash. The families of two other crash victims filed similar lawsuits yesterday.