MountainBear,
Originally Posted by MountainBear
It's also important to note that under American law what is foreseeable is not what is foreseeable to the expert or even to another mechanic or what his license says. The standard is what is foreseeable to the "average man".
Applying that standard, what is foreseeable to the average man, I find it a simple fantasy that this mechanic could foresee that this incorrect repair was going to blow up the Concorde.
I agree with you that there is no way in which Mr. Taylor, or anyone else for that matter, could foresee what was about to happen.
Still, are you completely sure that he would not be strictly liable were he to be a P.E.?
PBL