The heartbroken family of a former Obama administration official claims catastrophic pilot errors — not turbulence — caused the crisis aboard a private jet that killed her in 2023.
Dana Hyde, 55, died after a Bombardier Challenger 300 suddenly pitched violently up and down shortly after taking off from New Hampshire that March.
Her horrified husband and teenage son were also onboard the Airshare-operated flight headed for Virginia, and watched her get hurled from the floor to the ceiling, according to the lawsuit filed in a Massachusetts county court on Monday.
The jet made an emergency landing in Connecticut and Hyde — who served as counsel to the 9/11 Commission and as a top official at the Office of Management and Budget under former President Barack Obama — was rushed to the hospital with fatal injuries including head trauma, spine fractures and over a dozen broken ribs.
Her husband Jonathan Chambers and child Elijah did not sustain serious injuries during the flight.
Chambers and his children shot down “misleading” accounts that turbulence triggered the tragedy in the lawsuit against Airshare, Bombardier and the pilots.
The flight crew made a series of detrimental mistakes — including ignoring a warning message and using the wrong protocol when trouble arose, the National Transportation Safety Board said in its report. They did not experience any turbulence, according to the board’s findings.
The mother of two had not been wearing a seatbelt at the time of the frightening incident, the NTSB also found.
“Dana Hyde’s violent death should not have happened, did not have to happen and must never happen again,” Hyde’s family’s lawyer Anthony Tarricone told The Post.
The family is suing for an unspecified damages.
“She lost her life on a 17-minute flight that never should have taken off,” Chambers said in a statement.
“We’re bringing this case because Dana would have done the same for any other family, and we hope it ensures no one else has to.”
Bombardier declined to comment and Airshare did not return The Post’s request for comment.
