Fleming v. Delta Airlines

MEMORANDUM

LASKER, District Judge.

On the night of April 16, 1967, plaintiff, James Fleming, a medical doctor, took Delta Air Lines Flight 52 from New Orleans to Chicago. The flight made three scheduled intermediate stops at Jackson, Mississippi, Memphis, Tennessee, and St. Louis, Missouri. On its descent into St. Louis, the plane passed through a previously forecast turbulence causing Fleming to be thrown about in his seat, to strike his head against the window trim breaking his glasses and to experience severe chest and arm pains later diagnosed as angina pectoris. The crisis having passed,…