AIRLAWS - Key Persons


Capt. Andreas Mateou


Howard M. Acosta

Howard Acosta has a motto. "The impossible takes a little longer." Howard was recently named Florida's Most Tenacious Attorney. He was a United States Navy P3c Aircraft Commander and accumulated 3,000 flying hours - mostly at night and in bad weather while searching for Russian submarines in the Arctic and other inhospitable waters. In Aviation Law, very few attorneys have had such a successful and influential career. Howard was lead trial attorney for the F-16 wire-bundle fire case featured on 60 Minutes. He was lead plaintiff attorney in the Navy S-3 flight control malfunction case. He also handled a B-1 Bomber accident and a B-52 fuel tank explosion case. He has been successful in beating the Military Contractor Defense by developing evidence that the military really did not approve the pertinent specification in the design process.

Jack J. Burke

Job Titles:
  • ATTORNEY at LAW

Joe Garnett


Julian Hayes

Job Titles:
  • Aviation Consultant and Litigator

Nicosia Cyprus


Thomas McLarty


Yasar Ozturk

Job Titles:
  • Author
Author: Yasar Ozturk is a published author of six reference texts, and innumerable seminar papers and presentations.