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    State Can Control Airborne Alcohol, Judge Says

    By Mithra Salmassi
    October 2009

    The state of New Mexico was within its rights to prevent US Airways from serving alcohol on flights to the state after a drunken passenger was involved in a fatal auto crash, a federal judge has ruled.

    The Associated Press reported Oct. 2 that U.S. District Judge M. Christina Armijo said that state liquor laws took precedent over the Federal Aviation Act and the Airline Deregulation Act; US Airways had argued that the federal law trumped state law.

    New Mexico officials denied the airline a liquor license in 2007 after a passenger who drank heavily on a flight to Albuquerque caused a crash later in the day, killing five people.