Discuss (c) Beijing Convention 2010

The unlawful seizure ("hijacking") = the aircraft's control-taking by force-or-threat aboard — the violence, the intimidation, or any other form of intimidation against the persons-and-crew, the seizure's object the aircraft's diversion. "Aerial piracy" — the label's caution (the exam's precise line): the piracy-of-the-sea analogy tempts the universal jurisdiction (every state's court for every pirate) — but the treaty law's careful system allocates the jurisdiction (the flag, the landing, the offender's state) rather than the universality: the hijacker is the treaty-offender, not the pirate-of-law. The classic incidents' lore: the 1960s-70s epidemic (the Cuba flights; the terror campaigns' weapon); the asylum-and-defection hijacks; the extortion-and-crime faces; the modern turn (the 9/11's transformation — the aircraft-as-weapon: the sabotage-and-attack regime's era).