The federal government is seeking $5.7 million from the city of San Diego, two private companies and others for the damage to the military aircraft
The federal government is suing over a 2020 incident in which a skydiving plane rolled and slowly crashed into a parked, unoccupied Marine Corps MV-22 Osprey aircraft at Brown Field in Otay Mesa., seeks more than $5.7 million in damages, claiming the defendants owe the federal government “for the value of the repair and transportation costs.”
The lawsuit also names as defendants Washington skydiving company Kapowsin Air Sports as the owner of the plane and Tac Air Ops, a limited liability company that does business as Skydive San Diego, as the operator. A representative from Kapowsin declined to comment, while representatives from Tac Air Ops and Skydive San Diego did not respond to requests for comment Wednesday.
But when the flight crew landed at Brown Field and taxied toward what was supposed to be its designated parking location, the crew “discovered that the airport failed to maintain adequate parking” at that location, according to the lawsuit. The crew located an alternate area to park the plane. The crew left the Osprey near two other planes, including a twin-engine skydiving plane, a de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter, that had just spent two weeks under maintenance, according to the lawsuit and a city of San Diego “unusual incident report”When the pilot, who is also a named defendant, started the engines on the twin-engine skydiving plane, it began rolling toward the Osprey, according to the lawsuit, which alleges that the pilot unsuccessfully tried to stop the plane.
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