EDITH H. JONES, Circuit Judge:
This appeal presents the question whether 49 U.S.C.App. § 1305(a)(1), the express preemption section of the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978, preempts a state law claim for negligence and gross negligence relating to the airline's alleged failure to prevent a would-be hijacker from boarding an airplane as a passenger. The district court, relying on our then-binding precedent, held that the plaintiffs' causes of action were preempted...
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