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human
[Airplane!] Is Transamerican Airlines liable for the severe food poisoning that the passengers of Flight 209 experienced? If so, how big was their settlement?
gpt
Not necessarily. The food on the airplane may have been provided by an outside service. In that case, Transamerican would only be liable if they had reason to know that the food was contaminated. If not, the general rule in product liability would be that the manufacturer should be liable. 

If Transamerican did prepare and package the food, then they would likely be liable. Now it becomes a damages question. The nature of food poisoning is that it is relatively fleeting; there are no long-term injuries caused by it. The damages would be mostly infliction of emotional distress, possibly damage to clothes, and that's about it. You could argue that the passengers got injured by the irregular flight after the pilots got food poisoning and were incapacitated, but this gets to a "foreseeability" analysis (would someone preparing food find it foreseeable that if they did a bad job a plane might crash?). That's going to be a jury question, so it's hard to predict how it would come out.

Since no one was really injured, they probably settled for a few free plane tickets for each passenger.