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This document outlines policies for dealing with hijacked planes, including that any attempted hijacking will be met with a forceful response and considered an act of aggression against the country. Hijackers will be put on trial and sentenced to death if captured alive, but negotiations can occur to end the incident safely. A hijacked plane deemed to be used as a missile for strategic targets will be shot down, and hijacked planes will be escorted and forced to land or prevented from taking off. International law as outlined in the Tokyo Convention allows for reasonable force to protect the safety of the aircraft and persons on board.

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This document outlines policies for dealing with hijacked planes, including that any attempted hijacking will be met with a forceful response and considered an act of aggression against the country. Hijackers will be put on trial and sentenced to death if captured alive, but negotiations can occur to end the incident safely. A hijacked plane deemed to be used as a missile for strategic targets will be shot down, and hijacked planes will be escorted and forced to land or prevented from taking off. International law as outlined in the Tokyo Convention allows for reasonable force to protect the safety of the aircraft and persons on board.

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Any attempt to hijack will be considered an act of aggression against •thecountryandwill

prompt a response fit for an aggressor.

Hijackers, if captured alive, will be put on trial, convicted, and sentenced to death.

Hijackers will be engaged in negotiations only to bring the incident to an end, to comfort
passengers and to prevent loss of lives.

The hijacked plane will be shot down if it is deemed to become a missile heading for
strategic targets.

The hijacked plane will be escorted by armed fighter aircraft and will be forced to land.

A hijacked grounded plane will not be allowed to take off under any circumstance. United

States

U.S. fighter pilots have been trained to shoot down hijacked commercial airliners if necessary. In
2003, the military stated that they exercise this several times a week.

Other countries

Poland and Russia are among other countries that have had laws or decrees for shooting down
hijacked planes.However, in September 2008 the Polish Constitutional Court ruled that the
Polish rules were unconstitutional, and voided them.

INTERNATIONAL LAW

TOKYO CONVENTION

The Convention on Offences and Certain Other Acts Committed on Board Aircraft, known as
the Tokyo Convention, is an international treaty which entered force on December 4 1969. As of
2015, it has been ratified by 186 parties. Article 11 of the Tokyo Convention states the

following:
When a person on board has unlawfully committed by force or threat thereof an act of
interference, seizure, or other wrongful exercise of control of an aircraft in flight or when such an

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