So, like, we're talkin' liability insurance here, right? As in the party at fault (or their insurance company) should pay up?
So which insurance company had the birds' flock policy? Why aren't "the media" going after them?
I'm disgusted. I was in a small plane "incident" once. I was on a "corporate errand," shall we say, and the client's corporate plane was heading back home at the time I was scheduled to, so they kindly suggested I cancel my commercial reservation and ride home in the right seat of a twin-engine turboprop. Cool.
Until about 10 minutes after take-off, when the pilot started making funny faces at the gauges, then he turned the plane around and shut off one of the two engines. He called in a Mayday, we got priority clearance to land, and he executed a perfect landing and we rolled back to the hanger area. He was pretty cool about it -- except that he couldn't get out of the plane for ten minutes because his legs were shaking so badly from delayed nervous reaction. I had no idea how just serious it really was to lose one of the two engines. Apparently, it is considered somewhat of a B-I-G D-E-A-L.
So these mental midgets are on a MUCH larger aircraft, that lost BOTh engines, and the pilot brought them down to a nice, safe, albeit somewhat damp landing. Nobody died. And this dude has the nerve to complain that his shoes got wet? It is obvious that the United States is no longer the same country that saved civilization from the Nazi scourge.