Constantine Evangelinos v. Trans World Airlines, Incorporated

OPINION OF THE COURT

VAN DUSEN, Circuit Judge.

On August 5,1973, the Transit Lounge of the Hellinkon Airport in Athens, Greece, was the scene of a vicious terrorist attack on the passengers of TWA’s New York bound Flight 881. The principal question presented by this interlocutory appeal1 concerns the liability of Trans World Airlines under the terms of the Warsaw Convention, 49 Stat. 3000, et seq. (1934), as modified by the Montreal Agreement of 1966, 31 Fed. Reg. 7302 (1966).2 The district court concluded that the terms of the Convention were not applicable to the plaintiffs at the time of the…