tmorse6570 & essxjay:

It doesn't matter if it happened 4 minutes earlier or 4 days earlier. The first rule of litigating is go where the money is.

Therefore CO and Boeing have the most to fear. You can only get so much $ from an airport authority. You can get billions from an airline and the supplier.

And don't you think that "non-essential part" (describing the piece that fell off) is just going to come back to haunt Boeing/MD? By the time the plaintiffs are done, it will be gross negligence in creating a piece with no purpose other than to puncture Concorde tires.

Can't you just hear some Johnny Cochrane wannabe: "It came from their plane, so cause them the pain"

Remember, we are talking about LITIGATION, not JUSTICE.

Now whether French law (I'd assume this will be governed by French law, I don't know if there is some sort of internation law that may cover airline disasters) permits this, I don't know.

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