Wow.

\that is all

wtf is a lawer?

So did he come?

bill johnson (the lawywer) won a couple of big cases many years ago and made a name for himself, which he has lived off of. now, he is just a foolish old man. this pilot guy better be looking for a new lawyer.

Well, good luck with that one, Bill. Let us all know how that turns out.

surely. you they must be kidding?

They're not kidding... and stop calling me Shirley.

Good luck you two, we're all counting on you.

They forgot to mention that the passengers should have known that it was dangerous to be flown by a pilot who looks like the cowboy from The Village People...

Even if that defense were true its still the pilot's responsibility to ensure the safety. If he is saying the runway was unsafe it is his call to cancel the flight.

I agree. The passengers could have looked out the window, seen that they were on the wrong runway, and alerted the pilot by banging on the cockpit door.

Whatever happened to personal responsibility?

Flying a plane is no different than riding a bicycle, just a lot harder to put baseball cards in the spokes.

But did they get over Macho Grande?

Using that defense is only slightly more callous than suing the only survivor of the flight just because he was in the cockpit. Bankrupting his family won't bring yours back, and his wife and kids didn't do anything to deserve a lifetime of poverty because of it.

Looks like a picked the wrong day to give up practising law.

Howie was a rock.

Ted, we've lost the crew and Simon's turned to jelly!

bwlono: But did they get over Macho Grande?

No, I don't think they ever got over Macho Grande. I don't think anybody did.

Jacobin: I agree. The passengers could have looked out the window, seen that they were on the wrong runway, and alerted the pilot by banging on the cockpit door.

Whatever happened to personal responsibility?

It's gone since the damn liberals took over Congress. And this proves it.

bwlono
no one will get over mucho grande....

we're they on instruments?

BendreGiant: wtf is a lawer?

A lawer is one who smubbles.

Don't start in with your "white zone" shiat again.

Link farked?

Look like they picked the wrong week to get hit with the Fark effect.

"The National Transportation Safety Board determines that the probable cause of this accident was the flight crewmembers' failure to use available cues and aids to identify the airplane's location on the airport surface during taxi and their failure to cross‑check and verify that the airplane was on the correct runway before takeoff. Contributing to the accident were the flight crew's nonpertinent conversations during taxi, which resulted in a loss of positional awareness and the Federal Aviation Administration's failure to require that all runway crossings be authorized only by specific air traffic control
clearances."

Report of Aviation Accident, Comair Flight 5191, NTSB/AAR-07/05 (pops)

This lawyer is a whole new kind of asshole.

I think it is stupid that the guy is being sued cause he is the only one that lived.

That and he is the co-pilot. I am sure he has input, etc into the situation but sometimes an accident is just an accident. Why don't the victims families realize that?

Defense is being stupid but the case is stupid to begin with.

bwlono: They'll never get over Macho Grande.

looks like i picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue

I hate lawers.

Gwendolyn: Suing him for the incident is just as retarded as the defense.



Why are they suing the pilot? Why not the airline? Seriously, how much cash can one man have? But the airline likely has deep pockets.

Can't wait until this one works its way around the Comair offices.. fun fun! What a chode

I think the defense attorney is going for an assumption of risk argument. In other words, he seems to be arguing that flying is inherently dangerous and passengers accept that potential risk by getting on the airplane. It's a stretch because the pilot still probably breached whatever duty of care pilots have.

/Nice try, Mr. Attorney, but your argument won't fly.
//Just like the plane.

I am really sure the co-pilot boarded the plane that day and said, I'm gonna kill everyone on board except myself...

/looks like his plan worked
//who knew that the families of the victims would be so smart as to sue him for it.

They let Borat fly the plane? Might have been the problem...

In every plane crash, at least five things happen that should not have happened.

1) The person(s) at the controls is never responsible for all five.

2) The others things are always really big and really bad.

/asshat suit

Through the years, Johnson, 75, has represented several political figures and high-profile criminal defendants, including Shane Ragland, Melbourne Mills and Ron Berry.

Anyone have a clue who these people are??

establishmentarian: In other words, he seems to be arguing that flying is inherently dangerous and passengers accept that potential risk by getting on the airplane. It's a stretch because the pilot still probably breached whatever duty of care pilots have.

If he's arguing (FTFA) that the passengers were contributarily negligent, then he'd have to show that they didn't do everything that a reasonable passenger would to ensure their safety. Since there are established bodies which regulate air transport, simply buying an official ticket should be enough. After that, unless they were negligently operating an arc welder whilst in the passenger cabin, the lawyer is a flaming arsehole.

what an idiot.

1. not every defense is waived if you don't assert it in your answer.

2. he could have easily responded to the interrogatories with "discovery is just begining...need more facts...yada yada yada".

3. blame the vicitm is a surefire way to p#ss off a jury and get a nice sized plaintiffs' verdict on your record.