Sorry to keep asking questions but I'm trying to grasp this. As I understand things from your posts the situation is as follows.
You are a test pilot, ATPL holder with at least one jet type on your licence and 3500 hours. You were testing a prototype (?) aircraft for a South African company with no contract or agreed terms and conditions. The single (piston?) engine failed spraying oil over the windscreen causing you to 'fall' five thousand feet and hit the ground at 120kts stopping in three metres. It's too late at night here for me to calculate the 'G' involved but I'm surprised you're still with us.
Any company worth its salt will have proper insurance to cover such eventualities. A 'legal' letter telling you to go away? From whom? Why would they do that? Clearly there is a larger story behind all this and I'm wondering what you hope to achieve by posting in here. Shouldn't you be consulting a lawyer? If I were in your position, had been injured as seriously as you intimate and to the point where your debts are so serious that you "... will never be able to pay back working the rest of my life when I work again" I certainly wouldn't be posing questions in a forum. I'd be speaking to legal professionals.
As a matter of interest how long ago was this? You say two years, is that exactly? I'm just wondering about how long you would have to submit a claim, there are deadlines for these things.
Last edited by The Beer Hunter; 30th July 2008 at 00:50.