Question re Aircraft Components
I have been approached to organise some Products Liability insurance for an Australian company that manufactures and repairs aircraft components for Boeing aircraft under contract to a major airline. Their product range consists largely of cabin/galley equipment, trolleys, ground support equipment and inner panels. Other items include floor tracks, such as splices and ribs for flooring connections, flight crew seats and components.
My main area of concern is in the policy exclusion relating to aircraft products which excludes cover for liability arising out of any products which are aircraft component parts used for maintaining an aircraft in flight or moving upon the ground or those products used in the construction of an aircraft hull or machinery.
My question to the engineers is are the inner panels, floor tracks, flooring connections, splices and ribs and seats considered to be part of the hull, or something which would fall within the exclusion? I'm not looking for a legal definition, but rather a technical one.
AS