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Google cofounder Sergey Brin faces wrongful-death lawsuit from pilot's widow over fatal plane crash

A fatal plane crash last year involving an aircraft owned by Google's Sergey Brin is the focus of a new lawsuit.

In an email to Business Insider, Steven C. Marks of the Podhurst Orseck law firm, representing Olarte Maclean, said: "You can't possibly imagine how absolutely devastating it has been for Maggy. Google cofounder Sergey Brin is facing a wrongful-death lawsuit stemming from a plane crash last year that killed two crew members en route to a private island in the South Pacific. The suit, filed by the pilot's widow, alleges that a plane partly owned by Brin was improperly fitted with an auxiliary fuel tank for the long flight from California to Hawaii.

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