A newly filed lawsuit claims the Spokane International Airport is responsible for a dead tree that fell and killed two men while they were driving on the highway during a windstorm last year.

Elisha Brian, 30, and Eric Saint, 56, died from blunt-force injuries after a tree on U.S. Highway 2 near Sunset Frontage Road landed on their box truck on Dec. 18.

Their estate and families claim in a lawsuit filed this week that the tree resided on airport property and “had been dead for years.” The airport knew the tree was dead and did nothing to fix it, knowing it posed a danger to people nearby if it fell due to its decay, the lawsuit claims.

The Spokane International Airport said they have not been served and declined to comment.

Investigators said at the time they believed high winds caused

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