OK – you and your family are attending an air race and a plane nose dives into the crowd killing and injuring your family members. You don’t file suit because of all the money grabbing attorneys? It seems that every article about a lawsuit receives comments that the plantiff and plantiff’s attorney are just out for money. Does a plaintiff ever have the right to sue?
Yes you have a right to sue when someone willfully harms or damages you. When you attend a race or almost any sporting event you assume risk. Life is not safe.
Suit has been filed even before the true cause of the crash is known. That smells like money-grubbing to me…
It’s truly a horrible thing to happen, regardless if the injured and dead are family, friends or fellow humans. However – has anyone heard of gravity? The risk of hanging out underneath a bunch of big heavy metal objects flying over your head, by a less than perfect fellow human, seems incredibly obvious.
The cause of the crash is irrelevant. The point of the suit is that race organizers put fans too close to the course. Judging from the results, I’d say that’s a fairly accurate assessment.
Yes, I agree..the cause of the accident is irrelevant to me as well. I order to fully understand what happened, you would have to have been there. I was there. Galloping Ghost flew right over us and I saw the entire thing start to finish and we were very close to the impact. This is the most tragic thing I have ever witnessed in my entire life. Bottomline is that if you want safe..stop driving and stay at home. The lawsuit is crap. People have to assume responsible for attending these types of events. A safe distance would have been 2 to 3 miles from the course BUT what if it had been a military jet closing in at 600 to 700 MPH? Again, you want safe…stop living life.
From what I read, nobody was “hanging out underneath a bunch of big heavy objects flying over their head”. There was a substantial distance between the flight box and the spectators. The plane was traveling at a high rate of speed and the distance wasn’t enough. How much is enough is a tough question.. 2500 feet, 5,000 feet, ten miles? The whole purpose of a race is speed and profits are not obscene. Personally,I would love to attend the air race.
Why lawsuits so quickly occur after any public event where people are injured or killed is too long an argument to get into here.
Its appropriate to ask why in the world the Reno Air Race Assoc. even allowed a 74 year old pilot to compete. Its fair to ask why the seating area was where it was. We may never know what happended to the pilot in those final moments before the crash.
Safe distance: watch it on TV. I have been to air shows before and I knew the risk that a plane might crash. Anybody that goes to an air show, sporting event, auto racing knows the risk that something can happen and they willing go to the event; the risk falls on them.
Its the same when you attend an Indy or Nascar Race. How many times have we seen these cars hurled into the grandstands. It is a risk you take when you attend an event like this.
We go to these events to see famous aircraft do their thing and Reno is the last of the great Air Races in the States. There is only one way to see such an event and “be safe” – – stay at home and watch the news clips. Yet this event has been sold-out for decades – – WHY? Because we love the show, the people that participate and seeing these aircraft in action instead of setting on some tarmac doing nothing. BTW, there’s no sound in the world like a Royals Merlin at full throttle and pressure boost.
The world is not (has not been) a “safe place” for anyone and if you attempt to isolate yourself, your life’s journey will be dull to say the least.
“What do you call 500 lawyers at the bottom of the ocean? – – – A good start!”
I’ve been at the Reno races and I easily understood the danger of having one of these 60 year old planes break and crash. Everyone there understands this risk. This guy paid serious extra dollars to sit in the exclusive “VIP” boxes so he could be closer to the planes as they flew by at 500 mph and only 150 ft off the ground. He worked in the airline industry so he understands being near planes can be risky. There is definitely assumed risk for anyone attending these races.
the crash was “the predictable result of a reckless drive for speed by a risk taking pilot and crew, coupled with an insatiable drive for profit,”
Then why did he attend? Why didn’t his family stop him if they were so concerned?
Insatiable drive for profit? Sounds like that is what the attorney is doing, not the plane operator. All attorneys are scum.
OK – you and your family are attending an air race and a plane nose dives into the crowd killing and injuring your family members. You don’t file suit because of all the money grabbing attorneys? It seems that every article about a lawsuit receives comments that the plantiff and plantiff’s attorney are just out for money. Does a plaintiff ever have the right to sue?
Yes you have a right to sue when someone willfully harms or damages you. When you attend a race or almost any sporting event you assume risk. Life is not safe.
Suit has been filed even before the true cause of the crash is known. That smells like money-grubbing to me…
It’s truly a horrible thing to happen, regardless if the injured and dead are family, friends or fellow humans. However – has anyone heard of gravity? The risk of hanging out underneath a bunch of big heavy metal objects flying over your head, by a less than perfect fellow human, seems incredibly obvious.
The cause of the crash is irrelevant. The point of the suit is that race organizers put fans too close to the course. Judging from the results, I’d say that’s a fairly accurate assessment.
Yes, I agree..the cause of the accident is irrelevant to me as well. I order to fully understand what happened, you would have to have been there. I was there. Galloping Ghost flew right over us and I saw the entire thing start to finish and we were very close to the impact. This is the most tragic thing I have ever witnessed in my entire life. Bottomline is that if you want safe..stop driving and stay at home. The lawsuit is crap. People have to assume responsible for attending these types of events. A safe distance would have been 2 to 3 miles from the course BUT what if it had been a military jet closing in at 600 to 700 MPH? Again, you want safe…stop living life.
From what I read, nobody was “hanging out underneath a bunch of big heavy objects flying over their head”. There was a substantial distance between the flight box and the spectators. The plane was traveling at a high rate of speed and the distance wasn’t enough. How much is enough is a tough question.. 2500 feet, 5,000 feet, ten miles? The whole purpose of a race is speed and profits are not obscene. Personally,I would love to attend the air race.
Why lawsuits so quickly occur after any public event where people are injured or killed is too long an argument to get into here.
Its appropriate to ask why in the world the Reno Air Race Assoc. even allowed a 74 year old pilot to compete. Its fair to ask why the seating area was where it was. We may never know what happended to the pilot in those final moments before the crash.
Safe distance: watch it on TV. I have been to air shows before and I knew the risk that a plane might crash. Anybody that goes to an air show, sporting event, auto racing knows the risk that something can happen and they willing go to the event; the risk falls on them.
Its the same when you attend an Indy or Nascar Race. How many times have we seen these cars hurled into the grandstands. It is a risk you take when you attend an event like this.
Safe distance: watch it on TV.
That isn’t good enough. It is foreseeable that the TV might fall on you and cause serious injury or death. These people would still blame the airshow.
We go to these events to see famous aircraft do their thing and Reno is the last of the great Air Races in the States. There is only one way to see such an event and “be safe” – – stay at home and watch the news clips. Yet this event has been sold-out for decades – – WHY? Because we love the show, the people that participate and seeing these aircraft in action instead of setting on some tarmac doing nothing. BTW, there’s no sound in the world like a Royals Merlin at full throttle and pressure boost.
The world is not (has not been) a “safe place” for anyone and if you attempt to isolate yourself, your life’s journey will be dull to say the least.
“What do you call 500 lawyers at the bottom of the ocean? – – – A good start!”
I’ve been at the Reno races and I easily understood the danger of having one of these 60 year old planes break and crash. Everyone there understands this risk. This guy paid serious extra dollars to sit in the exclusive “VIP” boxes so he could be closer to the planes as they flew by at 500 mph and only 150 ft off the ground. He worked in the airline industry so he understands being near planes can be risky. There is definitely assumed risk for anyone attending these races.