Tsui Yuan Tseng, Plaintiff-Appellant-Cross-Appellee v. El Al Israel Airlines, Ltd., Defendant-Appellee-Cross-Appellant

CARDAMONE, Circuit Judge:

We have two issues to resolve on this appeal. One relates to the meaning of the term “accident” under Article 17 of the Warsaw Convention. The second, and by far more elusive, is whether a plaintiff denied a remedy for alleged injuries under the Convention because it does not apply may then" pursue a claim for the same injuries in state court. The Supreme Court has not answered this question, and our search for the correct answer is somewhat reminiscent of Sir Galahad’s search for the “Holy Grail.” But unlike that Crusader who, pressing on, left the plain and climbed…