How have you been long time no talk. Your show is very interesting. I do have a comment about the airlines being sued and not the elevator contractor. Large contracts like transit authorities and airports do have people going around”inspecting” the escalators mainly to see if they are operating, these people have no expertise as far as the safety and other features of these people movers that is why they contract out to the experts, the elevator contractors. Consultants do get involved but these are quarterly audits and meetings with the contractor to go over shutdowns and repairs.

The story about an airport being sued in an accident case is not uncommon. In this country the injured party sues the contractor and the owner if they are not employed by that owner. The airports direct people to take escaltators to various locations with little or no supervision on who or what is placed on the escalators. So we have people carrying babies, people with luggage, airport employees with luggage and no visible signs advising people to use elevator with luggage, strollers, etc. So picture this, a piece of luggage gets gets jammed sideways in the escalator and what do we have, a blockade where people and luggage are fed into human pile. What chance does an elderly person, a baby or small chid have with this scenerio, little or none. One case involved a woman who got her foot caught in the bottom combplate, which was broken before the accident, and what followed was a pile up of humans resulting in people getting injured and some people jumping off the escalator.

Joe Morrissey