ORIGINAL: abelard
Futaba didn't smash your buddy's plane.
Well, that might depend on whether ''Futaba team pilot'' means the pilot was on Futaba's payroll. If it does, and if the pilot did something that incurred liability, Futaba owns at least some of it.
Welcome to the age of lawyers.
Just to be clear, the Team Futaba people are actually sponsored by Hobbico, not Futaba Corporation. SO if the guy in the Team shrt was an employee he was an employee of Hobbico.