wrote:

Matt Whiting wrote:

I'd say it is plausible as this has been know to happen on Cessna's with
worn seat rails and was the course of an SB or maybe even an AD, I can't
remember now the details.

Matt


It's an AD:
http://www.airweb.faa.gov/Regulatory...0?OpenDocument

The biggest settlement in general aviation history arose, as
I remember, out of the crash of a 185 on floats in which the pilot lost
control when his seat slid back at liftoff. Something like US$450
million awarded. I can't understand that, as the AD is a mandatory
thing and if those seats and tracks are properly maintained they don't
let go like that. It's the owner's responibility to see that ADs are
complied with.

I concluded many years ago that "jury award" and "logic" shouldn't
appear in the same sentence, or paragraph or story.

Matt