CELEX: 62020CN0070
Language: en
Date: 2020-02-12 00:00:00
Title: Case C-70/20: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Oberster Gerichtshof (Austria) lodged on 12 February 2020 — YL v Altenrhein Luftfahrt GmbH

15.6.2020   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 201/10
            
         
      Request for a preliminary ruling from the Oberster Gerichtshof (Austria) lodged on 12 February 2020 — YL v Altenrhein Luftfahrt GmbH
      (Case C-70/20)
      (2020/C 201/16)
      Language of the case: German
      
         Referring court
      
      Oberster Gerichtshof
      
         Parties to the main proceedings
      
      
         Applicant: YL
      
         Defendant: Altenrhein Luftfahrt GmbH
      
         Question referred
      
      Does a hard landing, albeit still made within the normal operating range of an aircraft, which results in injury to a flight passenger constitute an accident within the meaning of Article 17(1) of the Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules for International Carriage by Air concluded on 28 May 1999 in Montreal, signed on 9 December 1999 by the European Community and approved on its behalf by Council Decision 2001/539/EC of 5 April 2001? (1)
      
      
         (1)  2001/539/EC: Council Decision of 5 April 2001 on the conclusion by the European Community of the Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules for International Carriage by Air (the Montreal Convention) (OJ 2001 L 194, p. 38).