Re: September 11th. Litigation?

Originally posted by kev35
I see no way in which Boeing could be sued, the aircraft were not at fault.

In the late 80’s and early 90’s the US GA manufacturing scene was literally brought to it’s knees by a ruling known as ‘Product Liability’. Armed with this ruling many bereaved families sued manufacturers for having built the aircraft in which their relatives died. Almost all of these occurances weree the result of gross incompetence by the pilots themselves and yet the aircraft manufacturers were sued (and lost) because they had provided the tool for the incompetence to occur!!! At the same time gun manufacturers were being sued in similar circumstances for making the weapons that were subsequently being used in crimes.

The last few years have seen a small amount of common sense being applied to these rulings but if they still stood it would have pretty certainly been the end of Boeing.