Thanks to a tickling from a co-worker, I noticed that Philip Greenspun has posted a quick note about the Teledyne Continental (TCM/TDY) judgement and award.

As a General Aviation flyer, this is really disturbing. People really need to start taking responsibility for their actions and the courts need to back that stance.

This is just the sort of litigious atmosphere we encountered in the 80s that put many of the piston airplane manufacturers out of business or at least killed off their innovation and model updates.

Links to Phil’s blog post, the NTSB report, the post at Aero News and a quick search at news.google.com.