Posts about stuff relating to airports
Obstacles, Collisions & Liability
Back in 2011, in the lovely northern NSW town of Old Bar, the locals were having a festival. Someone put up a Ferris wheel at the end of the local airstrip’s runway. An aircraft crashed into it and while no one was hurt physically, legal action ensued. A child riding on the Ferris wheel was awarded some pretty significant damages in some interesting legal ways.
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"Obvious Risk" Strikes Again!
Actually, it hasn’t. In fact, it is the opposite.
In today’s article, I’m going to discuss a case where the risk has been deemed “not obvious” and the defendants have had to pay up. The defendants in this case are the airport operator, the aircraft operator and the ground handler. There is also some complex discussion on shared liability that is, despite its potential boring-ness, important to understand.