"Gary Drescher" wrote in message
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If the police lawfully shoot at a robber and accidentally kill a
bystander, the robber is certainly legally responsible for that death.

I have never heard of any court coming to that conclusion.

Can you direct me to a legal precedent that supports your statement? That
is, a case where a shot fired at a criminal was deemed to have been caused
by the criminal, and where the criminal was found in violation of a criminal
or civil law against causing a death?

[...] but there *is* such a regulation with regard to posing an analogous
danger while flying.

That certainly appears to be the FAA's interpretation of 91.13. I remain
unconvinced that it's a sensible interpretation. The pilot in question
never, as a direct result of his own actions, presented any hazard to life
or property. Any such hazard resulted only from the (overblown, IMHO)
reaction from the government.

Pete