Cessna pays $1.6million

[Focker]

Give me a break

RJones, just so we're clear.

Because Cessna had a lawsuit filed against them, it should cost them 1.6 Million to settle.

Give me a break!

If it isn't Cessna's fault, here's what it "should" cost them to prove it: $0. Period. Like the judge throwing it out because of the charge is so ridiculous.

I know that's not how it is. Imagine the lawsuits being filed as we speak towards Cessna because the plantiffs will probaby get a settlement. And forget $1.6 million. How about a simple couple hundred thousand, or even a lousy 50,000 x 100 people. It's insane and its B.S., and killing this country.

Filing a lawsuit isn't how you find out who's fault it is.

Oh, and a doctor giving you're wife the medicine that kills her and the attitude indicator failing on and old Cessna---get this---
AIN'T THE SAME! What a poor argument for someone who seems intelligent.

 

[RJones]

One break coming up!

"Because Cessna had a lawsuit filed against them, it should cost them 1.6 Million to settle. "

Two ways to get out of a lawsuit filed against you, litigate or settle, which way is cheaper?

"If it isn't Cessna's fault, here's what it "should" cost them to prove it: $0. Period. Like the judge throwing it out because of the charge is so ridiculous. "

I agree, shouldn't cost Cessna a dime, however, since this is such a complex case the Judge isn't likley to through it out -- NTSB findings are not admissible in court -- so it's up to the jury which will hear all that's discovered, and we don't know what that is, which Cessna does.

"Filing a lawsuit isn't how you find out who's fault it is. "

Even though the NTSB points the finger towards the pilot that doesn't mean he's to blame. The NTSB is only a finding of what happened and doesn't spend much on small accidents such as this. When a lawsuit is filed the defendants have to dig much deeper than what the NTSB does in these cases so as to defend themselves which brings out much more information than what you and I will ever see. Cessna, in it's settlement, has for sure put "gag" orders and what findings above and beyond the NTSB's.

"Oh, and a doctor giving you're wife the medicine that kills her and the attitude indicator failing on and old Cessna---get this---
AIN'T THE SAME! What a poor argument for someone who seems intelligent."

Rather weak but I felt it was an analogy that you folks could understand.

How about Firestone tires -- is that a better analogy?

RJ

 

[flx757]

This is crap, and I'm sick of people suing everyone about everything. i.e. the woman that bagged 4 mil (or whatever it was) after spilling her coffee on herself from McDonalds and complaining it was too hot.
Thats all I was saying
Pat

Hey Pat,

I thought that was Cosmo Kramer, and he settled for all the free cafe lattes he could drink for a year.

 

[Focker]

I know, I hate it , but I know.

RJones, Of course you got a couple of posts in that did further explain some of the things I was hoping to drag out of you before my typing skills got me on the board. Funny, I know.
Specifically about preserving an accident scene. I had a buddy killed in a crash just after takeoff, it's been a year or 2; NTSB finding: Cause Unknown. Probably always be that way. Those of us flying the same plane, exactly that plane, would have liked to know something. So did his wife and kids.
I knew, ok thought, litigation would help freeze the evidence to be further evaluated. But against who? When I actually heard somebody talking lawsuit, presumably not for the cause but for money, I pretty much adopted caveman and patmack18's stance.
So, the manufacturer. No, old airplane, many years of abuse, shouldn't be them. The company, small, family like, everybody equally devastated by the loss of an employee/friend, to personal to be them. Back to the manufacturer, not personal, deep pockets. I wouldn't do it, it's not right and I know it. I, and more his family, would like an answer, but I wish it didn't have to cost somebody else, likely not at fault, to find one.

Fast forward to Cessna. I know it's cheaper for them to settle. I know fliling a suit against somebody, this case Cessna, preserves the evidence.
I know it, I hate it, but I know it.

Anyway, thanks for your reply. You were, as I thought, very well read on the matter.

 

[hyper]

Excellent posts by all. Unfortunately, here's the bottom line:

Things break and go wrong.

Life is lost.

Families grieve.

And lawyers are the only ones to benefit from it all.