Legal Opinion
Bradfield v. Trans World Airlines, Inc.
California Court of Appeal
Decided January 23, 1979No. Civ. 41192PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
NEWSOM, J.
Appellant Bradfield was injured on a Trans World Airlines, Inc. (hereafter TWA) flight enroute from San Francisco to Paris when, while he was descending the stairs of the first class section of a Boeing 747, the airplane encountered turbulence and he fell down the stairs. He was at the time an economy class passenger visiting the first class area, either on his own initiative or at the company’s behest—depending on one’s view of the evidence. At the time of the accident he was in stocking feet, entirely sober but suffering from a neck injury which had occurred in an earlier,…
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3Cited by6 opinions
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