Jackie Pflug and Scott Pflug v. Egyptair Corporation, a New York Corporation

MILTON POLLACK, Senior District Judge:

Plaintiffs, one of whom was a passenger on Egyptair, the national airline of Egypt, sustained injuries as a result of the hijacking of an international flight from Athens to Cairo. Both plaintiffs brought suit in the Eastern District of New York against the carrier’s United States subsidiary, Egyptair Corp., which is not itself a carrier. Holding that the suit was subject to Article 28 of the Warsaw Convention on international air transportation, 1 the District Court, Thomas C. Platt, Chief Judge, dismissed the Complaint for want of treaty jurisdiction.

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