Posted by JimmyC Link: Here's the rest.
on November 28, 2008, 10:04 pm
Stubborn Dude
DAYTONA BEACH -- NASCAR and one of its companies are suing Cessna for damages, saying the aircraft company's negligence and its faulty plane are responsible for a crash last year that killed five people.
The plane that slammed into two houses in Sanford in July 2007 was "unreasonably dangerous and defective," and Cessna's instructions, warnings, inspections and repairs for the aircraft were inadequate, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday in circuit court.
"The incident was entirely due to the negligence or fault of (Cessna), and not the negligence or fault of (Competitor Liaison Bureau, Inc.) or NASCAR," the lawsuit states.
Cessna attorneys could not be reached for comment, and a spokesman for the Kansas-based company said he couldn't discuss pending litigation. The spokesman did say he's not sure if anyone else has sued Cessna over the July 2007 crash.
The amount of money sought in the lawsuit is not specified, but NASCAR has already paid at least $1 million to the family of one of the two men killed in the plane, 56-year-old Michael Klemm, a NASCAR pilot.
An attorney for Klemm's family, Eric Latinsky, said in September the settlement "does allow us to make other claims toward some of the manufacturers" of the plane's parts.
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