Troy Gentry’s Widow Sues Copter Company She Claims Left Husband ‘Virtually No Chance’ of Survival
Nearly six months after the helicopter crash that claimed the life of country star Troy Gentry, his wife has taken legal action against the manufacturer of the fatal aircraft.Angela Gentry filed a suit in Pennsylvania on Feb.
14 against Sikorsky Aircraft Corp., Sikorsky Global Helicopters and Keystone Helicopter Corp, blaming them for “dangerous defects which caused” the death of her husband.The singer, one half of Montgomery Gentry, died on Sept.
8 when the Model 269 Schweitzer helicopter in which he was riding tumbled out of the sky near the Flying W Airport & Resort in Medford, New Jersey — where the vocal duo