While Captain Jim Lovell (USN, Ret.) is perhaps most well known
for his role as Commander of the ill-fated NASA Apollo 13 mission,
which was made even more famous by the 1995 movie of the same name,
many may not know of his long and extensive history as a General
Aviation pilot. Lovell shared some of that history with ANN at this
year's EAA AirVenture Oshkosh, an event he is quite familiar
with.
"Airports are not governmental by nature any more than
a theater is governmental by nature."
Source: Comair attorney Ed Stopher. Fayette
County Circuit Court Judge James Ishmael ruled Thursday Blue Grass
Airport in Lexington, KY cannot be sued for damages stemming from
the deadly takeoff crash of a Comair CRJ-100 last August, as it
falls under "sovereign immunity" as an entity of the merged
Lexington-Fayette County government.
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