Originally Posted by
RatherBeFlying
The airline lawyers will point to the many ignored near miss reports in arguing that this accident was waiting to happen and that it was just luck that this accident didn't happen sooner.
The plaintiff lawyers would have a better argument against the airline if they had deviated from the approach.
I understand the plaintiff's argument to be,
if this was "an accident waiting to happen", it was negligent/reckless of the airline to expose passengers to that risk.