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1782 saw the innovation of a flying machine. A balloon filled with hot air was build by the brothers, Montgolfier. On April 23, 1784 air law was born with a French police regulation prohibiting flight without previous permits. The International aspect of aviation followed soon thereafter when in 1785 a manned balloon crossed the English Channel.

The First tort case caused by a flying machine was of course brought before a Untied States court in the State of New York in 1822. In the case of Guill v. Swanson (19 Johns., 381, New York) a balloon landed in a garden and the aeronaut was held liable for the damage caused by the landing and his rescuers. From this Austere beginning an air law conference was held in Paris in 1889 under the auspices of the French Government.

In 1902, Fuchille submitted to the Institute of International Law, a first draft of the International Code of the Air. In 1903, the Wright Brothers flew their machine at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. In 1909, Bleriot, a magnificent man in his flying machine, crossed the English Channel, and in 1910 representatives of nineteen nations met in Paris and drafted a code for International Air Law but were unable to reach a final agreement.

This is prehistory. In half a century aviation has become the mode of international travel but the law hasn't kept up with the jet.

The uses and customs of public international law are scarce in the law of the air; the predominant source of international law is the International Agreement, multilateral and bi-lateral; the World Organization and the Regional Pact. To Initiate the discussion I shall discuss the World Organization, for therein resides the basic International Law of aircraft accident investigation procedures and information. This World Organization resulted from