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Abstract
Over twenty years ago, Justice Cardozo said, "Aviation is today an established method of transportation. The future, even the near future, will make it still more general." Aviation is now a vital part of our daily lives and a familiarity well steeped in American tradition. But even with this apparent adoption of the place of aviation in our economic cycle, it is accompanied by misunderstanding and confusion--witness the placement of serious auto accidents on page six of our newspapers, where headlines scream of aviation's failure if a crash occurs. But as was said in Cohn v. United Air Lines Transport Corp.: "Man has made rapid strides within a very small cycle in his endeavor to become master of the air, of which the bird until recently has been exclusively king in his own right, but with the exceedingly large number of unexplained and inexplicable catastrophies, it is evident that he has not yet become such master."
Recommended Citation
Henry G. Gatlin Jr.,
Tort Liability in Aircraft Accidents,
4 Vanderbilt Law Review
857
(1951)
Available at: https://scholarship.law.vanderbilt.edu/vlr/vol4/iss4/5