Well Skylune,
Tragedies happen. They are in fact part of this game we call life. Just
a few weeks ago the homecoming queen at a local high school was killed in a
car accident. She'd just been crowned the weekend before. She was in a
Honda..so with your logic her parents should sue Honda, the car that hit her
was a Ford. So I guess we will sue Ford as well. Let's also sue the
city...if she had not been sitting at the red light after all the wreck
would have never happened!
And that leads us to sueing the State because if the State did not allow
for those nasty dern red lights at intersections then the city could not
have placed one there! Alot of accidents don't have any fault at all except
with the driver themselves,...and your logic still requires all these people
to be sued?
The homecoming queen accident had a cause. While sitting at a red light
a young fool in a Mustang was racing another vehicle and slammed into the
back of the poor girls car. The Honda burst into flames and the school's
homecoming queen burned alive..a horrible death for a 17 year old young
woman . In your logic maybe a good old ambulance chaser (whom you refer as a
lawyer) could even sue the gas station she bought the gas! After all if the
gas had not have gone up she probably would still be here..etc. etc.
But thank goodness it did not take the State of TN long to charge the 18
year old fool boy driving the Mustang with 2nd degree murder. The homecoming
queens passenger is in a burn ward herself and no one knows if she will make
it.
As a parent I know anytime my kids do anything ..there is a risk. From
letting the kids borrow the car on Saturday night, or even letting them play
sports at school. And yes even flying in an airplane! We even take that risk
when we put the kids in the car to go to the grocery store. Life is a
risk...and there are accidents. Preventable? If you think never letting your
kids leave home would prevent an accident I suggest you look at stats on
home accidents.
When you are to afraid to get outside your plastic protective bubble are
you really living anyway?

Patrick
student SP
aircraft structural mech

"Skylune" wrote in message
lkaboutaviation.com...
Totally preventable tragedy, thats the saddest part.

The kids' parents should now file civil suit against the pilot's estate,
the airport that sponsored the event, the EAA, as well as the manufacturer
of the plane and possibly whatever firm did the maintenance.

Of course they probably won't, since any parent stupid enough to allow
their kid to climb into a plane of unknown reliability, with a pilot of
unknown skill and ability, will probably not think of this, unless an
aviation attorney read the story and contacts them.

Amazing: would parents would allow their kids to hop on the back of a
motorcycle with an unknown rider, get onto an ATV or snowmobile with a
stranger, etc.? Probably not. But the EAA's slick propoganda (like
making a false statement claiming there have been no other fatalities in
the YE program) fools some people.