Connecticut law permits recovery by the state only for claims where the state itself was the purchaser, said Richard Blumenthal, that state's attorney general.
The Warsaw Convention permits recovery of up to $75,000 for "bodily injury," and various courts have disagreed whether this can include emotional distress.
Cooling treatment alone has permitted recovery after 17 minutes of clinical death at normal temperature, but with brain injury.
Removal of the goats was finally all but complete in 2005 and fenced enclosures have been built since 2001, permitting recovery of local flora.
Wheeled runway landings would be possible, permitting simple, precision recovery at many sites around the world, including the Kennedy Space Center launch site.
It can be ordered with an option for fixed landing gear to permit conventional takeoff and recovery.
The Warsaw Convention permits recovery of up to $75,000 without requiring proof that the airline was at fault.
With this type of shape, around 99% of the energy goes into the air rather than vehicle, and this permitted safe recovery of orbital vehicles.
But it would not permit recovery of punitive damages.
It flies in the face of the view that to permit a separate award for loss of enjoyment is to permit double recovery.