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Yesterday, people involved with the Darwin awards were saying "let's wait 24 hours".

For the pilot and co-founder, yes, he deserves the award. For the passengers, I predict lawsuits. But apparently the contract included a clause about accidental death.

The guy who brought his son also probably deserves a Darwin award.

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This is not an accident though, this is gross negligence and I somewhat doubt you can contract your way out of that.

An accident is when something unexpectedly goes wrong. This end result was baked into the design and it was merely a question of how many times you could cycle that hull before it would implode, not if it would. Death lottery.

I think you're right. There are proven ways to do this without the fatal result, and this company ignored many of the industry best practices. I look forward to seeing this play out in court, because it has the potential to create a really good precedent.

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