Guy who stopped Underwear Bomber sues airline

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The airline, not the TSA, gets sued for the TSA's (and really our entire intelligence system's) shortcomings.

Amazing. Utterly amazing.

Can the airline simply say, "TSA's fault" and walk away? Will any of the information that the Intelligence community knew about this guy be admissible at trial?

Tonight in the next episode of Attorneys Gone Wild...
 
Strategy based on easiest lawsuit to win vs. deepest pocket.

I wonder who he would have sued if he had been sucked out a hole in the hull.
 
He's just upset because the airlines have not rewarded him for his efforts in saving 100s of lives and a multi million dollar aircraft. And the TSA is the federal government. Don't you need an act of congress to allow it and we all know how slow they are to do anything except vacation!
 
denverpilot said:
http://m.cbsnews.com/storysynopsis.rbml?feed_id=1&catid=57346930&videofeed=37

The airline, not the TSA, gets sued for the TSA's (and really our entire intelligence system's) shortcomings.

Amazing. Utterly amazing.

Can the airline simply say, "TSA's fault" and walk away? Will any of the information that the Intelligence community knew about this guy be admissible at trial?

Tonight in the next episode of Attorneys Gone Wild...
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Not as amazing as it seems. TSA has no jursdiction in a foreign airport. They do require that airlines provide screening at least as good as TSA would provide for any flights coming into the US. TSA sets the standards, airlines must comply.

So in this case it is appropriate to target the airline for the (apparent) failure of their contract security.

As for the intelligence failure, that is a failure on the part of the US govt. IIRC, the folks that learned of the risk didn't pass it along to others nor did they flag the individual on the "list". That's an intel failure. TSA did what they were supposed to: provided the blacklist to the airline (which didn't contain the name).

The case really demonstrates how ineffective the TSA is. Thier response: spend billions on strip-search machines and gropes. Which might not have found the "explosive" in any case, and particularly not in a foreign airport.

Besides all that, the TSA and other government agencies are essentially un-suable in cases like this. It's been said by many that the TSA is effectively unaccountable. I'll leave it at that rather than dump this into Spin Zone.
 
How did the airline fail? How would it have been possible to detect an underwear bomb? Does a practical explosive sniffer exist that could be used to screen all passengers? Next thing you know we will have to take off our underwear and wear it on our head as we walk through security. It's bad enough having to take off a belt and shoes.
 
"Just follow the money" should be changed to "Just follow the lawyers going after money"
 
wsuffa said:
Not as amazing as it seems. TSA has no jursdiction in a foreign airport. They do require that airlines provide screening at least as good as TSA would provide for any flights coming into the US. TSA sets the standards, airlines must comply.
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I had forgotten the flight originated outside the U.S. Thanks for the reminder.

Still a totally screwed up situation... but you do have an excellent point.
 
The passenger does not have the resources to sue the gummint, considering how long it would drag out before any real conclusion and all the lawyer fees involved. The airlines do - and a jury sympathetic to the cry of "They let me fly on their airplane with a dangerous guy onboard" will award him enough money (which solves his immediate desire in any case) from the airline to get the airline interested in passing the buck and suing the gummint for not catching the guy before he got on their airplane.
 
If he doesn't want to risk getting hurt taking down someone trying to kill him, maybe he should just sit there quietly and let the nutjob kill him since there's less emotional trauma involved as the blast rips his body apart.

Waa waa waa. SLAP, shaddup, just beat the crap out of the bad guy and get on with life. Idgets.
 
Bob Noel said:
"Just follow the money" should be changed to "Just follow the lawyers going after money"
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Unless there is more than one person named Theophilus Maranga, the passenger who stopped the "Underwear Bomber" is a lawyer! (Specializing in immigration law, according to my Google search results.)
 
At first I thought this was a case of a hero following up by doing something thoroughly un-heroic, but after reading the extent of his injuries in another news story, now I'm not so sure.

The lawsuit said Maranga lost a tooth in the act, which also left him with injured ribs, permanent numbness in his hands and a pain in his neck that hampers his movements...

'Here's a guy who saves an airliner, saves hundreds of people's lives, gets hurt and they want to play cheap,' [his attorney] said.
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...rwear-Bomber-suing-airlines-10m.html?ITO=1490
 
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