LAROCHE v SPIRIT OF ADVENTURE (UK) LTD

[2009] 1 Lloyd's Rep. 316

COURT OF APPEAL

Before Lord Justice Mummery, Lord Justice Dyson and Lord Justice Jacob

Carriage by air - Limitation of action - Claimant sustaining personal injury while being carried in hot air balloon - Whether hot air balloon “aircraft” - Whether flight involved contract of “carriage” - Whether claimant a “passenger” - Whether running of two-year prescription period suspended by defendant’s voluntary liquidation - Carriage by Air Act 1961 - Carriage by Air Acts (Application of Provisions) Order 1967, article 29 - Council Regulation (EC) No 2027/97.