Leppo v. Trans World Airlines, Inc.

Order, Supreme Court, New York County, entered April 29, 1974, denying defendant’s motion for summary judgment, and granting plaintiffs’ cross motion for summary judgment to the extent of finding defendant absolutely liable to plaintiffs under the Warsaw Convention, is unanimously affirmed, with $60 costs and disbursements to respondents. The issue is whether a terrorist attack (during which three plaintiffs were injured and one plaintiffs intestate was killed) took place "in the course of any of the operations of embarking or disembarking” within the meaning of article 17 of the Warsaw…