I doubt that you stay liable through bankruptcy.
DG is not Glazer-Dirks nor is it Rolladin-Schneider
and when DG bought the assets of those bankrupt
companies it didn't buy the liability of them. The
liabilities, debts to suppliers, warranties, shareholders
rights, employee compensation issues, etc... all
were disposed of by the bankruptcy court.
By buying the company name, assets and tooling
etc...DG got the goodwill of the customer base and
may have taken on the obligation to monitor the
status of legacy product but it did not take on an
obligation to provide free repair.
Also, they seem to believe that the third option,
the wings are strong enough with reduced operating
limits is sufficient.

Bob K. mentioned 'Hmmm... I wonder who that
'someone' might be. Whoever they are, they're
pretty brave to get wrapped up in this mess.'

This could also be applied to DG. If they specify
an inspection and repair procedure for this mess
does it imply that they are accepting some liability
for payment and warranty if someone other than
DG does the work?

At 03:06 21 April 2007, Mart wrote:

I read the report on the DG website and it all looks
very nice except
the last words; end of discussion. That rubs me the
wrong way.
As far as I know this is not a warranty issue but a
building mistake
and I think you stay liable for that, no time expire.
It seems to me that some business will have an insurance
to cover the
loss for the pilots.
I was at the Elan factory a number of years ago. They
were building
there the very first DG 1000. So there was defenitely
a close business
contact.
If DG would have to pay they might go bankrupt.Due
the previous
bankrupty they might not be liable anyway.
But Elan is a very big ski-factory. The gliders were
made on the same
terrain,behind the same fence. After seeing the gliders
build I saw
them build ski's by the 1000's. There is money there
to compensate or
fix the gliders.
I think all the 300/303 pilots should put $100 in an
account and have
somebody find out who is liable.




--
mart