It’s not unusual for the families of plane crash victims to file suits against airlines, but it is for them to sue over a film about the accident. But that’s what has happened in Spain.
On Aug. 20, 2008 a crash of a Spanair plane en route from Madrid to the Canary Islands killed 154 people. And a group representing crash victims and their families is suing in two Spanish courts to stop the TV network Telecinco from broadcasting the second part of “Vuelo IL 8714,” a dramatization of the crash.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/06/business/media/06crash.html?ref=todayspaper
The suits allege that the film shouldn’t be broadcast because the crash is still under investigation.
The first part of the movie aired last Wednesday, and Telecinco has argued that it has a right to broadcast the film.
The victims’ families claim they have 65,000 names on petitions demanding that the film not air. The group is also calling for a boycott of products related to Telecinco.