Family sues over deadly Comair crash

[Mellyrose]

Um, no....how about to use for funerals? Or maybe they'll put it away so that they can put their kids through college since in a lot of cases, one parent is dead now, and therefore no longer working. That not only puts stress on income reducing it to 1/2 in most circumstances, but what if the mom/dad stayed at home and took care of the kids while the spouse worked? Now, not only will they have to go work, but they'll have to pay for child care as well.

What makes you think that Katrina and 9/11 victims used money for plastic surgery? Do you have any sympathy whatsoever?

[T-Bird76]

To discuss this topic any further with individuals that represent the lowest common denominator is pointless.

[hiss srq]

I tend to be a bit defensive of pilots etc etc.. and such ibut these families have been delt a blow no matter what way you cut it and some of these families may have been barely scraping by if at all as it was. No what for them...... I am sure that you are quite well supported if you hold the ratings you say you do hold as I know it is not cheap to become a pilot but place yourself in the shoes in some of the families that lost loved ones for a moment here and take yourself out of the Nike's your in and put yourself in say a family that makes about 30 grand a year with two kids in school with rent to pay etc etc etc... and than imagine that 50% or more of that annual income has just died in a firey plane crash. Immediately you have just lost your ability to survive let alone pay rent or feed your kids. I am sure that being 18 years old etc... you do not have to worry much about these things yet and hopefully not for a very long time yet but think about it and place it in your considerations before making such cruel statements. For the boob job statement your again way off target that is the part the media makes public and the media is out for ratings and profit therefore not reliable. Only an extremely small portion of the money distributed was found to be in the wrong peoples hands and those people as far as I know have been prosecuted to the max extent of the law. Plane crashes happen yes but do people deserve to die because they get on a plane? No yet they are still accountable but I am not going to get into my definitions of accountability here. None the lesss every cent that the family gets for most will be needed money and some wont but it will still be given. The airline will pay they will be sued it is fact and that is my rant for that. (gosh I need a show on Fox!)

[Mellyrose]

Very well said, hiss.

(well....everything except the Fox show part ;))

[NIKV69]

what are they going to do with it ? Get boob jobs, like with Katrina and 9/11?

I almost couldn't believe I read this. It is apparent you are trying to have an intelligent conversation with someone who is not capable of doing so. If you want to be partial to pilots fine, but they do make mistakes. Unfortunately people die as a result. Lawsuits will happen and families will be paid.

[Tom_Turner]

It's not neccesarily relevant what the needs of the victims' families are in terms of culpability of others - however, this instance seems so avoidable -No plausible excuse/reason at all to see why all these lives were lost.....A damn shame...

Tom

[Nonstop2AUH]

I am no fan of lawyers but accident suit settlements are a cost of doing business in aviation and many other businesses. Similarly, accidents are a potential risk of anyone choosing aviation and many other professions as a career. Nobody should choose to be in such a business unless they are willing to deal with these sort of contingencies. The best way to prevent lawsuits is to have competent employees who take their jobs seriously enough to prevent accidents. For those of you defending the pilots or the airlines, think of yourself as a paying passenger for once, or perhaps the family of one. If you went to the hospital to have your tonsils removed and they amputated your legs instead, or if a nurse accidentally delivered your child a fatal overdose of the wrong medication, would you just accept the first, low ball settlement because doctors and nurses are overworked and underpaid? Of course not, you'd sue for all you could get, or at least whatever you thought the value of your legs or your child was.

[Derf]

First of all, the pilots are to blame plain and simple, but there were other pilots who knew this was going to happen and warned the proper people by telling them that they accidentally lined up on the wrong runway but realized that the compass had the wrong heading......some competent pilots almost ran into the same thing but did not make this error. It could have been because they were not taking off first am, It could have been because they were better pilots...or it could have been because they did not drink decaf....PLAIN AND SIMPLE, this problem has happened before and the pilots realized it before throttle up! There has been the same problem at other airports and there is a warning about checking the compass because it is DANGEROUS the way the airport was layed out....IN PLAIN ENGLISH, it is a poor design. To go further, the repaving of the runway part of the taxiways made more confusion, not to mention it was very early.....IF YOU TOOK AWAY one of these things, the accident probably would have never happened.

Like I said, the buck stops with the pilot, I feel very sorry for them...but they did not do their job and check the compass, PLAIN AND SIMPLE. You can have all the debates you want, it does not change the facts!

Just my .02c

[fly.mcs]

One crash isn't going to bring down Comair. Did the events of 9/11 and flight 287 bring down AA? No, so I look at this as a set back but not a nail in the coffin. Delta is already reporting monthly profits after reorg charges. As long as they see value in Comair it will stick around.

Flight 587. :lol: