Abstract :
The aircraft accident that had resulted many sacrifices, injury, physical defect, or
loss of other materials and immaterial had been a tragedy that had touched everyone
especially for passengers and family of victims. The aircraft accidents had resulted
consequence of Jaw about who must and properly responsible in law manner handled
cause of the accident and also changed loss of victims and their family.
So far, Aircraft firm was a party assumed responsible to the aircraft accident
cases as an operator of the aircraft. It because of the clearer aspect of law refers to the
liability rules still provided about aircraft firm only.
There was no found a clear rule of law that explained about the aircraft producer
liability of the accident, either in Intenational Conventions or in Indonesia National
Aircraft Law. Therefore, this dissertation taken up some problems those are: first, how
did national and international law answered this aircraft accident cases, Second, how did
the civil law liability principle of aircraft producer handled this aircraft accident and third
problem was how did the civil law answered about the liability of aircraft producer for
aircraft passenger loss.
The research method that had applied in this dissertation was a normative and
explorative law research, Result from this research had obtained some conclusions; first,
national and international aircraft law had regulated rules of aircraft accident, but it had
not regulated about who must responsible to this accident yet completely; second, each
aircraft accident, one of parties who must responsible to the accident was aircraft
producer, third in applying doctrine of product liability for aircraft producer used strict
liability principle, but refers to the passenger loss manner was based on the limited
liability principle. It needs some recommendation for this research, first it needs clearer
rules of liability of law refers to parties that had been a factor of aircraft accident cause;
second it needs rules of aircraft producer liability of passenger loss, and third created
clearer rules, law justice, and built law culture about the importance of aircraft safety,
security and comfortable, it needs a forming of aircraft producer liability law.