Legal Opinion
Sakaria v. Trans World Airlines
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided October 25, 1993No. 92-1642PublishedCited by 111 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
PHILLIPS, Circuit Judge:
Around a day and a half after completing his flight as passenger on a TWA international flight from New York to Athens, Greece, Jagdish Sakaria died of a heart attack. His widow and children (the Sakarias) brought this diversity action against TWA seeking damages for his death under Maryland wrongful death and survival statutes and, by later procedural developments, under the Warsaw Convention, alleging that the death occurred as a result of trauma occasioned by events associated with a terrorist attack in the Rome airport during the TWA flight’s intermediate…
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