Eastern Airlines, Inc. v. Floyd

Passengers aboard an Eastern Airlines (defendant) flight, told mid-flight that the plane might have to ditch in the ocean after engine failure, landed safely and unharmed physically after the crew regained control, but Floyd and other passengers (plaintiffs) sued for purely mental distress under Article 17 of the Warsaw Convention. The Convention's original French text used the phrase "lésion corporelle," which the U.S. Senate's ratified translation rendered as "death or wounding of a passenger or any other bodily injury."