Originally published at: Scottsdale To Fight Runway Excursion Lawsuit
A company with ties to Mötley Crüe frontman Vince Neil brought the lawsuit.
This lawsuit should have been thrown out of court.
On what legal theory do you base your opinion?
Makes me wonder if all these plaintiffs are using the same idiotic ambulance chasing law firm?
Why aren’t. They suing the maintenance shop that installed the landing gear bolt incorrectly that lead to the gear collapse? Not deep enough pockets I guess.
This is like me having a blow out on my car, careening into an another car parked in a driveway and suing them for parking a their car too close to the road.
I hope the city sues the plaintiffs or law firm for filing a frivolous lawsuit.
Incredible that you can sue someone for parking your aircraft 600 yards away from an active runway, a landing aircraft hits your parked aircraft on a tarmac, after recklessly crossing 600 yards of non-runway pavement and gravel…hits your parked aircraft, your aircraft is damaged and somehow it’s your fault! The people who are at fault (Learjet maintenance), are innocent? The parked aircraft owners should be suing the surviving passenger for living with half a brain, and the Learjet maintenance team for incompetence.
What a frivolous lawsuit! Guess the city has deeper pockets than the maintenance company that installed the bolt incorrectly. Shameful
Agree. I’m guessing some “smart” lawyer seized by the fact that it was parked in a pen undesignated spot. So, what if it was under tow when struck?
Complete nonsense - ambulance chasing.
The GA ramps at KSDL are all well outside the KSDL RWY 3/21 RSA. Look it up.
“… after investigators found the aircraft’s left main landing gear separated from the wing structure following an incorrectly installed retaining bolt.”
This is the only part of the story that is relevant to what lead to the fatality.
There is a reason, very well illustrated here, why areas must be free of obstacles. The pilot is dead because of the violation stated “city’s airport was negligent by allowing a Gulfstream G200 to be positioned in a designated object-free area, which contributed to the collision after the Learjet departed the runway during landing, killing its pilot and injuring others.” Gear collapses and break failures for all sorts of reasons are a known risk and are mitigated by instituting measures to reduce potential harm in an incident. There would be no death and possibly no injuries if the G200 wasn’t there and the investigation would be only on the incorrectly installed bolt. The city will loose this suit.
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