Legislative Acts: Anti-Hijacking Act

Anti-Hijacking Act of 1974


    

    The Anti-Hijacking Act of 1974 was created to expand on the definition of special aircraft jurisdiction of the United States when used in the Federal Aviation Act.  It provides the President the ability to suspend the right of any air transportation and any persons to operate aircraft without notice or hearing as long as it is not following the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Seizure of Aircraft, or used as a base of operations for terrorist groups.  It also authorizes the Secretary of Transportation to suspend operating authority to foreign air carriers when they do not maintain proper security measures per the Convention on International Civil Aviation. (US Congress HR8277 | TrackBill, n.d.)

    The Anit-Hijacking Act is important to shaping the aviation industry because it allows the U.S President the power to suspend air operations in a faster time, without having to rely on congresses approval, which may take too long.  Though it took some time, aircraft hijackings have decreased.  At the peak of aircraft hijackings in 1969, a total of 86 planes were hijacked, and since 2002 an average of only 2.9 hijackings per year occurred. (Ranter, n.d.)  

US Congress HR8277 | TrackBill. (n.d.). Trackbill. Retrieved May 30, 2021, from https://trackbill.com/bill/us-congress-house-bill-8277-antihijacking-act/33687/

Ranter, H. (n.d.). Aviation Safety Network > Statistics > By period. AviationSafetyNetwork. Retrieved May 30, 2021, from https://aviation-safety.net/statistics/period/stats.php

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