Posted on 02/12/2024 6:58:03 PM PST by nickcarraway
There is fault, but not with the airline.
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Not true. Bars and places that sell and serve liquor are subject to Dram Shop Laws. Google says....
Under Texas’ Dram Shop Laws, establishments may be liable for any damages that result from their serving of alcohol to a patron who is obviously intoxicated. This includes medical bills, lost wages, pain and suffering, loss of consortium or companionship, funeral expenses for wrongful death claims, and more.Jan 23, 2024
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The bar with wings was responsible for over serving him. They share in his drunken antics.
They have gone after night clubs and bars. For years. If you serve a drunk person, you could be crimiinaly and civily liable.
Not even close to the truth.
Yep. One person craps their pants and everyone's gotta wear a diaper.
How is the airline to know what or how much consumed before getting on flight? If do inks in flight were requested and they didn’t serve, they likely would have been seen as wrong too!
Not responsible only those around him
Sounds like Delta threw a matchstick onto a forest fire; they aren’t liable for anything. The dude was a walking time bomb.
Clothes, not close.
He was three sheets to the wind when he boarded the plane. And an assh8le to boot.
Stewardesses appear to be highly trained not to let a passenger get intoxicated on a flight. Which makes sense, because on the rare occasion that happens, there are usually major incidents that make the news.
If this guy was drunk, he either brought his own stash on board or he stopped at the airport bar before getting on or after getting off the plane.
Lying sack of shite trying to turn his rage fueled DWI into someone else’s fault. This case sounds like a real stretch.
Host laws don’t apply to airlines.. ?
Per the FAA...
The boarding of a passenger who appears to be intoxicated is a violation of Section 121.575 of the Federal Aviation Regulations (FAR)
Wanna bet airlines let them on anyway?
The flight time is 2 hours 30 minutes. Add time to board, taxi, deplane, traverse the terminal to the parking garage/lot, locate car and mow down the wife, that puts it well in excess 3:30.
Two drinks in 3.5+ hours would not put someone over the legal limit. The gentleman would have had to consume 5 drinks (chugging the first 3 just prior to boarding). Those 3 prior drinks still would not be legally drunk in most states, much less aboard an airplane with no established limit.
Many states have aiding and abetting DUI laws. The guilty party there would be the dead wife, which raises a question. Who is the estate?
“with her estate claiming flight attendants overserved her beau.”
How did the estate observe this piece of evidence? Can the estate be cross examined regarding this observation?
Is her hubby in the slammer and unable to benefit from his crime, so some slimy jailhouse lawyer came up with this plan and enlisted an outside slimy lawyer to participate?
What happens if the serving flight attendant was gay, black, trans, or some other mitigating factor?
The society has lost all grasp of personal responsibility. These are the death throes.
EC
If he was then under Texas law, it was illegal to serve him even more alcohol. I suppose most states also have similar type laws.
Well maybe so, but serving two more drinks didn’t make him drunk, he was already snockered.
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