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In catastrophic commercial aviation incidents, two primary procedural pathways govern litigation:
Under Article 17, the carrier is strictly liable for bodily injury or death resulting from an "accident" on board. Under Article 21, liability up to 128,821 SDR (approx. $171,000 USD) cannot be excluded or limited. Above that tier, the carrier cannot limit liability unless it proves the damage was not caused by carrier negligence or was solely due to a third party (e.g. aircraft manufacturer).
Manufacturers (e.g. Boeing, Airbus) are not carriers and do not receive Montreal treaty caps. Claims against OEMs proceed under state or national tort law (Strict Liability for Design Defect, Negligent Testing, Failure to Warn). The forum non conveniens doctrine often becomes the key battleground for foreign passenger claims filed in U.S. courts.
The Flight Data Recorder (FDR) and Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR) constitute primary objective evidence. Legal teams scrutinize command disagreements, such as pilot yoke trim inputs counteracted by autonomous flight control laws (e.g., MCAS), to determine whether the accident was aerodynamic, structural, or software-induced.
Under the FAA Organization Designation Authorization (ODA) framework, manufacturers are frequently delegated compliance verification. In litigation, internal communications prior to certification regarding single-point failure modes become critical for overcoming punitive damage thresholds and willful misconduct tests.
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