Two Told to Land on Icy Runway Get $1 Million

BOSTON — A federal jury Wednesday awarded more than $1 million to the pilot and co-pilot of a World Airways jet that crashed on landing at Logan International Airport in January, 1982, and nearly slid into Boston Harbor.

A separate federal jury earlier this year determined that the crash was caused by icy runway conditions at Logan and that the Federal Aviation Administration and Massachusetts Port Authority had failed to apprise the pilot of the situation. That jury awarded the airline more than $30 million in damages.

Walter Walker, an attorney representing pilot Peter Langley and co-pilot Donald Hertzfeldt, said the two had suffered “emotional distress, impairment of earning capacity, lost wages and minor physical injuries.”