A Brooklyn, New York couple has been awarded one million dollarsafter a Manhattan Supreme Court jury ruled in favor of their claimto Allstate Insurance for damages to their home caused byvibrations from an airliner taking off from John F. KennedyAirport.
John and Annette Ferranti had a custom-built steel and concretehome in Mill Basin , Brooklyn . In July of 2002, the Air FranceConcorde had trouble gaining altitude upon take-off, buzzing BelleHarbor at a hazardously low altitude.
Residents of the area complained about cracking plaster andshaking foundations, including the Ferranti's who experiencedleaking thorough cracks in concrete blocks of their 12 year-oldhome after rainstorms.
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