The concept of Accident in International Air Transport

The Warsaw Convention of 1929 and the Montreal Convention of 1999 apply to all international and most of the domestic carriers of persons, luggage or goods performed by aircraft. According to Article 17 of the Warsaw Convention to which the Montreal Convention of 1999 made inconsequential changes: “The carrier is liable for damage sustained in the event of the death or wounding of a passenger or any other bodily injury suffered by a passenger, if the accident which caused the damage so sustained took place on board the aircraft or in the course of any of the operations of embarking or disembarking.”? What mean ‘accident’, ‘on board the aircraft’ and ‘in the course of any of the operations of embarking or disembarking’? are issues that have been examined in this article.