Scary Mary
I did mean the Pinnacle crash which was caused by pilots behaving badly.
Schiavo hits the news on a regular basis with some scare or another. At one point it was planes are going to fall out of the sky because of cheap counterfeit parts. The Pinnacle crash was because of core lock on the engines preventing relight. ( No mention of why the engines stopped, which was the pilots being idiots !)
None of her predictions of doom have ever come to pass but it does get her on the news and into peoples mind which is were her lawyer pals want her.
Widow - Aviation safety has never being made in lawsuits, it has being done by regulation and mindset. At the GA level there is no question lawsuits have driven suppliers out of the business, raised prices and decreased safety by driving up costs. Don't think so, try looking at what the widow Carnahan collected from Parker Hanifin and the price of vacuum pumps when Parker left the business.
If you want to be part of improving safety you need credibility with the players and the public. Scary Mary has none with the first and less and less with the later.
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