Liability Considerations Associated with Failure to Train Flight Attendants: Air Carrier and Non-Air Carrier Flight Operations

In this article (Paragraph No. 35,101), the author examines recent case law with regard to federal preemption in passenger cases raising the issue of air carrier failure to properly train cabin service crews to perform safety and/or security-related functions. In addition, the author explores possible theories of liability associated with the practice of employing untrained cabin service personnel in private, corporate and business aircraft operations where Federal Aviation regulations do not require flight attendants. The article discusses whether such cabin service personnel should be considered "crewmembers" or passengers for purposes of safety or security and whether operators placing such personnel on aircraft undertake a duty, either to passengers or to the cabin servers, to provide safety and/or security training.

• Corporate Authors:

  International Aviation Law Institute

  DePaul University College of Law, 25 E Jackson Boulevard
  Chicago, IL  United States  60604
• Authors:
  • Jones, Valerie Dunbar
• Publication Date: 2004

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Edition: Transfer Binder 1: 2001 to 2004
• Pagination: pp 22101-22111
• Monograph Title: Issues in Aviation Law and Policy

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Aircraft operations; Aviation law; Flight attendants; Flight crews; Liability; Safety and security; Training
• Subject Areas: Aviation; Law;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01126870
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Apr 17 2009 12:20PM