[Dave S]

It is truly mind-boggling that you accept the self-serving statements of some high-priced shill. His job is to twist, contort, hide, shade and otherwise distort the facts so he can bamboozle a jury (or worse, yet, get a favorable ruling from some judge who plays along with the game).

And you think the pilots statment and that of the SOC were not scrutinized and refined before they were published on Americans Website? I have a bridge I would like to show you.

[Gee Wally]

Dave S, you conveniently left out the last sentence of my post:

Whatever the facts may be, we can rest assured that once the trial lawyers get ahold of them, we will never know the truth.

I made no pretense that I know what the real facts are or that I believe what American Airlines said. Your response is illustrative of the kind of tactic I was talking about -- take statements out of context, twist what was said, draw wholly unsupported conclusions from the facts. A pretty good imitation of a pompous, primping, self-righteous trial lawyer at work.