On Oct 16, 7:24*pm, Ron Wanttaja wrote:
On Thu, 16 Oct 2008 17:45:07 -0700 (PDT), stol wrote:
Come on man... Her husband died from his own stupidity.

No, he was *injured* by his own stupidity. *He was alert and talking to the
first people who arrived on-scene but died, fully conscious, when flames
eventually engulfed his aircraft. Fly-in volunteers had kept the flames back
until their portable extinquishers ran out. *A faster response by trained,
equipped rescuers would have got him to the hospital alive. *The legal question
was whether the fly-in or the city should have had a faster response available,
not who was at fault in the accident itself.

Ron Wanttaja

A faster response "might " have saved him... That was a big issue in
the case. My point is had he flown his plane properly and not crashed
then the legal system would not be churning through its bizarre
course. I still content the hundreds of innocent spectators who
watched a man burn alive are mentally scarred for life but for the
pilots stupidity. For that the estate with 10 million should have to
pay them all..... It is the ol saying,,, "live by the sword, die by
the sword.

Over and out.