Robert Spragg is a specialist in aviation accident litigation and has been involved in numerous airline, commuter, military and general aviation crash cases.
Prior to joining Kreindler in 1991, Robert received a Bachelor of Science Degree from Cornell University, served in the United States Marine Corps as a CH-46 helicopter pilot and Weapons and Tactics Instructor (WTI) before graduating from Rutgers Law School in Newark, New Jersey where he served as Senior Articles Editor of the Rutgers Law Review.
Throughout his career, Robert has worked on many high-profile aviation disaster cases, including the crash of Continental Connection Flight 3407 near Buffalo, New York, the crash of American Airlines Flight 587 at Belle Harbor, New York on which he served as a member of the Plaintiffs’ Committee and as Plaintiffs’ Liaison Counsel, the crash of SwissAir Flight 111 near Peggy’s Cove, Nova Scotia on which he served as a member of the Plaintiffs’ Committee, the crash of Comair Flight 3272 near Monroe, Michigan, and the crash of TWA Flight 800 off Long Island, New York. Robert was also extensively involved in several notable actions brought for the wrongful deaths of a famous R&B star who was killed in the crash of a Cessna 402B in the Bahamas, a United States Senator from Pennsylvania who was killed in a mid-air collision near Philadelphia, the President and COO of the Walt Disney Company who was killed in a helicopter crash in Nevada, and the CTO of the Colgate-Palmolive Company who was killed in a helicopter crash in New York’s East River.
Our highly experienced attorneys, many of whom are former military pilots, use every available resource to obtain the largest recovery possible for each of our clients.
Robert has litigated cases involving the McDonnell Douglas MD-11 and DC-9, Boeing 747 and 737, Airbus A300 and A340, Embraer 120, Fokker F-28, Cessna 172 and 402, Cirrus SR22, Piper Aerostar, Beech 1900C and Lear 24, as well as numerous cases involving helicopters, including the Bell 206, 212, 412 and UH-1N, Sikorsky H-60, S76, S61 and MH-53E, Boeing CH-46, Robinson R22, Hughes 369, and Eurocopter BK117, AS350 and EC135.
Robert is admitted to the bars of New York and New Jersey and the United States District Courts for the Southern, Eastern and Western Districts of New York and the District of New Jersey. He is also admitted to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals and the United States Supreme Court. He has appeared pro hac vice in numerous state and federal courts throughout the United States. He is a Fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America and a member of the American Bar Association and its Aviation Litigation Section, the New York State Bar Association and the Federal Bar Council.
