ANTHONY TARRICONE: It puts businesses over ordinary people, profits over safety. ELLIOTT: Boston attorney Anthony Tarricone has sued Airbus for a plane crash in the past. TARRICONE: These multi-national corporations should be held accountable if they design and manufacture airplanes that suffer catastrophic failures and crash, killing innocent people ELLIOTT: In the case of large commercial airplanes the only product covered by Alabama's new law, a 12-year window to sue is not very long, says California aviation attorney Lou Franecke LOU FRANECKE: Most commercial aircraft, which is what airbus is manufacturing, have a service life that can go up as high as 30 or 35 years. So I think a 12-year limit is extremely short. ELLIOTT: There's also the politically loaded question of providing legal cover for a foreign firm making its first foray into the United States; home turf of aircraft maker Boeing, the nation's largest exporter. Loren Thompson is an aerospace analyst with the Lexington Institute.