Alaska Airlines, Inc. v. Sweat

BOOCHEVER, Chief Justice.

This appeal and cross-appeal is before us following the superior court’s action pursuant to our remand in Alaska Airlines, Inc. v. Sweat, 568 P.2d 916 (Alaska 1977) (hereinafter “Sweat I”).

In the original action in this case, Milford Douglas Sweat and his wife, Diane M. Sweat, sued Alaska Airlines, Inc., (hereinafter “Alaska”) for damages for injuries sustained by Mr. Sweat in an airplane crash near Cordova, Alaska. 1 Judgment was entered against Alaska, and both sides appealed. 2

In Sweat I, liability of Alaska for the Sweats’ injuries was sustained, but the case was…