(Via Rachel Lucas, via AoSHQ) Because apparently resetting to zero their karma counter wasn’t exciting enough:
US Airways passengers get $5,000 each; is it enough?
Many US Airways (LCC) passengers who endured a crash landing in the Hudson River 12 days ago say they appreciate the $5,000 that the airline has offered — but some say it’s not enough.
Joe Hart, a salesman from Charlotte who suffered a bloody nose and bruises, says he “would like to be made whole for the incident.”
It’s too soon after the accident to determine what emotional distress he has suffered, he says.
…time to generate some negative karmic juice by going after the company who pretty much saved their lives. Smooth move, that.
“Emotional distress” is the relevant code phrase: it means “Hi. I plan to be a jerk now” (I’d actually use a harsher word, but I’m trying to be good). Couple that with the fact that the five grand’s just to handle immediate problems that any passengers might have had after surviving an accident where no human was at fault and several humans managed to do everything right at precisely the correct moments – which is another way of saying that the airline’s not being jerks – I think that we can safely assume a certain motive here. Personally, I blame “beautiful snowflake” syndrome: one of the side-effects of constant self-esteem reinforcement (which is something that our culture prides itself in doing, usually at levels that would have made an Egyptian Pharaoh blink) is that it encourages the notion that everything bad that happens to you is of course an absolute, deliberate outrage. Which someone must pay for, also of course.
If this depresses you, look on the bright side: most of the people quoted have worked out that, yeah, they should be dead right now; and that they’ve got better things to do than blame the airline for being attacked by a flock of geese. But there’s always at least one schmuck in the crowd, isn’t there?
Crossposted at Moe Lane.
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More lawsuits, more rich lawyers, higher prices
izoneguy (Diary) Wednesday, January 28th at 11:02AM EST (link)Pretty soon you will have to sign waivers to board a commercial flight!!
This is the state of America. I would have gone to church with my family and said a prayer for the crew that saved me – not sue the company they work for. Sad. There are times that suing a company or individual is justified. This is not one of those times.
The point cannot be made often enough: Modern liberalism, as embodied in the Obama presidency, is the defender of the status quo. And the status quo is a road to economic ruin. Political forces cannot redistribute the wealth that the economic system does not produce.
Moe, not true, mistakes were made...
General_Confusion (Diary) Wednesday, January 28th at 11:36AM EST (link)It was determined that while the Captain was leisurely making a standard undemanding water landing he failed to hit the “ditch switch” causing the plane to sink faster than it would have otherwise.
While it is true that all passengers and crew were rescued before the plane sunk it still does not nullify the fact that they COULD, I say COULD, have been in the water.
I would recommend that my clients focus on what could of happened and NOT on what actually happened. Therefore my clients should sue for 134 Billion dollars (I keep 80%, legal fees y’know) on the fact that the plane could have sunk before rescue and they would have been left undefended in the river only to plucked into space by marauding UFO’s. No such trauma should befall anyone.
Alternatively if the courts fail to find my in favor, uh, I mean my clients favor, I suggest a line item in the new stimulus bill to make me rich, oops, I mean make my clients whole.
Yours truly
General Counsel
Dewey, Cheatem & Howe
Moe, not true, mistakes were made...
General_Confusion (Diary) Wednesday, January 28th at 11:36AM EST (link)It was determined that while the Captain was leisurely making a standard undemanding water landing he failed to hit the “ditch switch” causing the plane to sink faster than it would have otherwise.
While it is true that all passengers and crew were rescued before the plane sunk it still does not nullify the fact that they COULD, I say COULD, have been in the water.
I would recommend that my clients focus on what could of happened and NOT on what actually happened. Therefore my clients should sue for 134 Billion dollars (I keep 80%, legal fees y’know) on the fact that the plane could have sunk before rescue and they would have been left undefended in the river only to plucked into space by marauding UFO’s. No such trauma should befall anyone.
Alternatively if the courts fail to find my in favor, uh, I mean my clients favor, I suggest a line item in the new stimulus bill to make me rich, oops, I mean make my clients whole.
Yours truly
General Counsel
Dewey, Cheatem & Howe
Sue the bird...
Kyle-MI (Diary) Wednesday, January 28th at 11:38AM EST (link)oh, wait it is dead and has no deep pockets.
It would be really nice if some of the more responsible passengers counter-sued.
Actually, it would be really really nice if someone just strung up the lawyers.
They could sue Canada
JustLeaveMeAlone (Diary) Thursday, January 29th at 11:15PM EST (link)After all, the birds were Canadian geese, weren’t they?
They could name the National Audubon Society as co-defendant.
http://audubonmagazine.org/InTheNews/birdStrikes.html
“To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.” Thomas Jefferson
US Airways needs the power
Lammo (Diary) Wednesday, January 28th at 1:03PM EST (link)to “Blam” ™ any flight 1549 passenger who dares to sue them over this. And their lawyers as well.
Don’t be so open minded that your brains fall out. (John Corapi, The Black Sheep Dog)
Investigation?
SteveLA (Diary) Wednesday, January 28th at 9:04PM EST (link)So what happens IF there turns out to be some negligence on the party of US Air on implementing the notice that came out on the Air Bus 320 concerning compressor stalls? I read/heard that the very aircraft that went down had had a compressor stall incident a very few days before this accident and the notice warned of problems with the engines.
I tend to think that the question of legal actions has to say open until the NTSB investigation is completed, including reviews of US Air maintenance, performance of the engines and manufacturing defects.
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Competency over ideological purity and litmus tests
Joe Hart was one of the first on TV talking
Scope (Diary) Wednesday, January 28th at 4:22PM EST (link)raving about the terrific job the Captain did in landing the plane and etc. Now he is saying that he is having a hard time getting on airplanes. The guy is a total schmuck!
Joe Hart was one of the first on TV talking
Scope (Diary) Wednesday, January 28th at 4:22PM EST (link)raving about the terrific job the Captain did in landing the plane and etc. Now he is saying that he is having a hard time getting on airplanes. The guy is a total schmuck!
Sue PETA:
Tbone (Diary) Wednesday, January 28th at 4:32PM EST (link)It’s them that’s against shooting and eating the geese.
Envisioning when all that is Left is the Right.
Sue PETA:
Tbone (Diary) Wednesday, January 28th at 4:32PM EST (link)It’s them that’s against shooting and eating the geese.
Envisioning when all that is Left is the Right.
Lesson for airlines: never allow anyone to survive a crash
icbm (Diary) Thursday, January 29th at 12:09AM EST (link)As any lawyer will tell you, there’s no such thing as an accident. Someone is always to blame, someone with very deep pockets.
That was the most insulting thing I ever heard, how dare you icbm...
DONTREADONME (Diary) Thursday, January 29th at 12:12AM EST (link)Nah, just kidding…. is the FCC knocking on your door yet. Howard Stern? Anyway, saw the comment title and kind of got a laugh about it.
Heh. Well, any time there's a good deed in this world,
icbm (Diary) Thursday, January 29th at 11:04PM EST (link)there’s a lawyer or the government (or a government lawyer) standing nearby to punish it.
Yeah, but then they'd have to send a hit squad
Lammo (Diary) Thursday, January 29th at 12:44AM EST (link)out after any relatives so they couldn’t sue either. Either that or only allow single orphans to get on their planes.
Don’t be so open minded that your brains fall out. (John Corapi, The Black Sheep Dog)
true. it's hopeless - until we have tort reform.
icbm (Diary) Thursday, January 29th at 11:06PM EST (link)maybe if tort reform came with free (chocolate) torts, the american people would accept it more readily. we republicans need to get on the handout bandwagon. if we’re not willing to buy votes, we just don’t deserve them. heh.