Pardon me, but this is the kind of bull**** that's killing GA

"A.Coleman" wrote in message
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Please read this. This is what's killing GA and we ought to do something
about it.


http://www.cdapress.com/articles/200...ews/news04.prt

and this

http://www.news4jax.com/news/4269212/detail.html#



Please take it for what its worth -- a money grab. Even if on your worse
days you have a bone to pick with ATC, recognize that these lawsuit
outcomes are not truly about the truth or whose at fault; its about who
has the deep pockets. The ultimate question is: what's the PICs
responsibility? These outcomes blame ATC. If the pilot were to have been
presented during his written exam with hypothetical questions encompassing
the same facts, what do you think his answers would have been if the
choices were either to blame the PIC or to blame ATC?


It doesn't look like a money grab to me. There are many suits without merit
that win big bucks, but this doesn't appear to be one of them. The
controller made a fundamental error and two people were killed as a result.

But the NTSB report won't be admissible, right?

They'll have to argue the case de novo.

I believe that is correct.. NTSB reports are for safety reporting.. and not
admissible in a court of law.. or else no one would talk to the NTSB and
we'd never figure out what went wrong and how to correct it.

BT

"Mike Granby" wrote in message
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But the NTSB report won't be admissible, right?

They'll have to argue the case de novo.

Mike Granby wrote:
But the NTSB report won't be admissible, right?

They would argue it de novo anyhow. However the NTSB tells them
what to say pretty much.

Mike Granby wrote:

But the NTSB report won't be admissible, right?

I don't think accident reports of any type are admissable since they are
always heresay -- filled out by a person who did not witness the accident.

I suppose that because I was on a jury for a lawsuit involving a car
crash and when the cop's report was "shown" to us, everything was
blacked out except the date, location, and names of the parties involved.