Originally Posted by
Bell_ringer
They have to be able to show a justifiable reason, such as negligence, or the accident being outside of the policy conditions.
(my bolds above)
The owner of the aircraft gave control to someone who was not qualified as a pilot (a fairly specific
policy condition of any aviation insurance i've ever seen) after failing to ascertain and verify his qualification. How is that not
negligent?
As i said earlier - I really feel for this owner but he's not got a leg to stand on in terms of his insurance. The best that he could hope for is that there may be some form of legal support protection in the insurance that might help him sue the pretender (but even then I think he's on a hiding to nothing.)
If ever there was an example of why it is important to get the admin and paperwork right it's this sad tale.