What kind of plane was he on?
 

I'm an att'y and I follow the lawsuits filed here in Austin every day. This one came on the report and, I have to say, either this guy was SUPER tall or he was in some kind of weird seat (this is all public record, I'm not disclosing anything secret; I'm also not involved):

Estren v. Continental Airlines
1/10/2006 D-1-GN-06-0094
Negligence action claiming that the defendant's seats aggravated Estren's old back injury by forcing him to sit "with his knees up against his chest and his hips against the window." Available for immediate download

Sounds pretty baseless to me. It is an old injury so he was aware of it before the flight. Assuming he wasn't moved in flight he had the opportunity to de-plane before departure. Maybe he was next to a COS?

Wow. If everyone who complained of these symptoms filed suit, phew...

Maybe a Cessna 152?

That's GOTTA be more comfortable than a 777.

Maybe he was the pilot of an ExpressJet? Those cockpits look tight.....

:-)

I'm trying to picture how you could be sitting down and have your hips against the window, in any aircraft seat. :confused: :rolleyes:

Anyway, as bad as CO Y seats are, unless the plaintiff is of extremely unusual size (tall/wide/both), sounds like a pretty worthless cause of action to me. Among many other things, the configuration, legroom, width, etc. of every single seat on every CO plane is posted on their website.

ETA: Maybe he's a Plat who got involuntarily DG'd due to F being overbooked... ;)

I think the 152's cabin is 40 inches wide, or perhaps it was the 150?

FWIW, you can put up both armrests on the ERJs which will allow you to put your hip against the window ...sort of I guess.

The safety briefing tells us how to fasten our seatbelts, stow our luggage, and use the oxygen masks, but they make no mention at all about how to sit in the seat. That is obviously negligence on their part, and after he wins his suit we can expect a revised safety briefing.

I wonder if his filthy bottom feeder knew he drives a VW??

The only time I've been crushed against the "window" was when the guy in middle seat of a 737 was the size of a line backer and I was stuck with the window seat. The ERJ's have quite a bit of hip room (no feet room). This guy should try flying in a CRJ which is worse for hip room than anything that is in CO's fleet.

For some reason, I hadn't been able to get back into this thread (FT loads VERY slow at work). Glad that y'all got my irony. I couldn't believe he even found someone to *take* that suit. But, there's a lawyer for every client (and a client for every lawyer).

Maybe Shakespeare really was right about lawyers :)