I am neither a trial lawyer nor uneducated. In fact, I work in healthcare. Those of you who hate product liability lawsuits, what is your plan for preventing companies from selling dangerous and defective products? Fact is, there is no safeguard except liability action against makers of dangerous products. The fact that judges and juries have made bad decisions doesn't mean you have a better solution. If a medicine or a consumer product kills or maims you, what is your recourse? So, please, before you denigrate every liability lawsuit, ask yourself why it is that your car doesn't kill you with carbon monoxide, your electric drill doesn't explode and amputate your hand, and your bottle of aspirin doesn't poison you. What other incentive exists for corporations to make safe products?
Point taken. But, if a "choice" is what causes the failure, then it is not an "accident". Injury specialists don't call crashing the airplane (or car) an accident. The word leads to the false impression that nothing could be done to prevent the event. Lets all change this culture and realize, as noted in this article, that most injury and property damage is no accident, it is preventable harm.
Techam has been building airplanes for 65 years. But, the three readers above apparently know better about what they should build and even what an airplane is. You would think that LSA manufacturers did no market research and had no idea what sells in the current marketplace.
