As many of you will likely find yourselves working for an airline some day, I find CHAPTER 8 - Airline Liability to be particularly interesting and beneficial. Thankfully, air transportation is one of the safest ways to travel, but deaths do occur. For week 4, consider the following questions and discuss with your classmates:

1. A United Airlines domestic passenger and international passenger are standing side-by-side in the airline terminal's baggage claim area waiting for their bags to arrive when a lone terrorist walk up and detonates his suicide vest, killing them both. Is the airline liable for either death? Explain.
2. Why did the United States not experience an explosion in civil litigation arising out of the deaths of thousands of people from the terrorist attacks using hijacked airliners on 9/11/2001? If a close family member of yours had been killed in these attacks, would you have acted differently (within the boundaries of the law)?