Lidle's family stands to lose 1.5 million

[gringo]

The short of it is, if they can determine that he was piloting the aircraft, and not the other guy, his death benefts don't have to be paid out.

Should be interesting to see this one pan out...


http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/baseball/mlb/10/12/lidle.benefits.ap/index.html?eref=onion

 

[AC560]

I vaguely remember a lawsuit awhile back where a guys was flying with a CFI in the right seat. There was no instruction or anything the CFI was just riding along. They crashed and died and the family sued and won claiming that as the more experianced aviator the CFI was PIC or something to that effect.

My facts could entirely be wrong on this, anyone remember this?

 

[nwa_contrails]

Sounds along the lines of the story of the family of a student pilot who sued the CFI when the student pilot crashed.

On review of the students logbook, it was written in the remarks section of a couple flights that in pre-solo training, they practiced stalls, but not "recovery from stalls." It was determined that the accident was caused when the a/c stalled and wasn't recovered by the student.

The lawyers got a hold of the students logbook and figured they practiced stalls but not recoveries from them. Anyone remember this?