Legal Opinion
Manion v. Pan American World Airways, Inc.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided May 12, 1981PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Birns, J. P.
Sixteen-year-old Robyn G. Haggard, a plaintiff in this action1, was one of many persons seriously injured or killed when a Pan American plane in which she was a passenger was attacked by terrorists on December 17, 1973 at Fiumicino International Airport in Rome. At the' time of the attack, the aircraft was about to depart for Beirut, Lebanon. This was the second stage of Robyn’s journey from New York to Saudi Arabia as a member of a charter group of 24 friends and relatives who were flying to spend Christmas holidays with employees of an American oil company.
Rob…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Rosman v. Trans World Airlines, Inc.New York Court of Appeals · 1974
- Ross v. Pan American Airways, Inc.New York Court of Appeals · 1949
- DeMarines v. KLM Royal Dutch AirlinesDistrict Court, E.D. Pennsylvania · 1977
- Froman v. Pan American Airways, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1955
- Manion v. Pan American World Airways, Inc.New York Supreme Court · 1980
3Cited by1 opinion
- In Re Air Crash Disaster at Warsaw, Poland, Etc.District Court, E.D. New York · 1982