Legal Opinion
Husain v. Olympic Airways
District Court, N.D. California
Decided October 3, 2000No. C 99-1400 CRBPublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
AMENDED FINDINGS OF FACT AND CONCLUSIONS OF LAW
BREYER, District Judge.
On an international passenger flight in January 1998, Dr. Abid M. Hanson, a nonsmoker who suffered from asthma, inhaled a significant amount of second-hand smoke and died in the company of his wife and three children. Dr. Hanson was not seated in the “smoking” section of the airplane on which he died, but in a seat three rows ahead. Considerable ambient smoke was present at this location. Had Olympic Airways’ flight crew responded appropriately to the repeated requests to move Dr. Hanson from this area, he might be alive…
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