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From: marcum@sun.uucp (Alan Marcum)
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Subject: Re: Product liability
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Date: Thu, 2-Jan-86 11:38:19 EST
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> I was hangar-flying about this subject the other day, when it occurred
> to me that nearly all of the lawsuits I could remember were in high-
> performance planes, mostly twins.  So I dug back through my six years
> worth of Aviation Consumer magazine, and made a list of the various
> lawsuits against the plane manufacturers....
> 
> But I didn't find a single lawsuit regarding a 2-seater.  And I found
> only three lawsuits that centered around 4-place fixed-gear fixed-prop
> singles, and none of those three lawsuits alleged that there was
> anything wrong with the design of the airframe nor engine.
> -- 
> Doug Pardee -- CalComp -- {hardy,savax,seismo,decvax,ihnp4}!terak!doug

If one views the product liability cost as a fixed overhead ($X/year),
then the cost gets amortized over all the product produced in a given
year.  In this case, even if a large award is made on only high-performance
planes, we'll still see effects on the price of simpler ones.

-- 
Alan M. Marcum				Sun Microsystems, Technical Consulting
...!{dual,ihnp4}!sun!nescorna!marcum	Mountain View, California