Under ‘NORMAL’ circumstances and times I could not believe it would go anywhere unless the airline is found to be GROSSLY negligent.
The ‘other’ FR is correct, they all should be praying for their good fortune and if not in the praying attitude, at least thank their lucky stars that the Pilot had the wherewithal to keep the plane under control and safely land it.
I don’t think the family of the person who died has a suit either.
The way things are headed, soldiers and or their families will be suing for injuries and or deaths on the battlefield.
“I didn’t join to go to war, I joined to go to college” OH, that’s right, they already used that one FOUR years after 9/11 in which anyone that was in sort of had to know what was going on...
The Riordan family is Catholic and has announced they will not sue is my understanding. They know they’ll see her again and they’ll miss her very much, I think the dad said. Classy and refreshing.
Regular old negligence would be sufficient, but the plaintiff would have to prove that the defendants knew or should have know that there was a problem with the engine. If they had done all required maintenance and had no prior warning negligence will be hard to prove.