CONVENTION

ON THE SUPPRESSION OF UNLAWFUL ACTS RELATING TO

INTERNATIONAL CIVIL AVIATION

THE STATES PARTIES TO THIS CONVENTION,

DEEPLY CONCERNED that unlawful acts against civil aviation jeopardize the safety and

security of persons and property, seriously affect the operation of air services, airports and

air navigation, and undermine the confidence of the peoples of the world in the safe and

orderly conduct of civil aviation for all States;

RECOGNIZING that new types of threats against civil aviation require new concerted

efforts and policies of cooperation on the part of States; and

BEING CONVINCED that in order to better address these threats, there is an urgent

need to strengthen the legal framework for international cooperation in preventing and

suppressing unlawful acts against civil aviation;

HAVE AGREED AS FOLLOWS:

Article 1

1. Any person commits an offence if that person unlawfully and intentionally:

(a) performs an act of violence against a person on board an aircraft in flight if that act

is likely to endanger the safety of that aircraft; or

(b) destroys an aircraft in service or causes damage to such an aircraft which renders it

incapable of flight or which is likely to endanger its safety in flight; or

(c) places or causes to be placed on an aircraft in service, by any means whatsoever, a

device or substance which is likely to destroy that aircraft, or to cause damage to it

which renders it incapable of flight, or to cause damage to it which is likely to

endanger its safety in flight; or

(d) destroys or damages air navigation facilities or interferes with their operation, if any

such act is likely to endanger the safety of aircraft in flight; or

(e) communicates information which that person knows to be false, thereby

endangering the safety of an aircraft in flight; or

(f) uses an aircraft in service for the purpose of causing death, serious bodily injury, or

serious damage to property or the environment; or

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