论对劫持航空器行为的法律规制

On Legal Regulation of Aerial Hijacking Crime

某航空公司航班飞机突然失联,被人劫持的可能性并未被排除在外。假设飞机遭人劫持的猜测最终被证实,那么此次事件再一次提醒各国,通过法律手段防范和打击劫持航空器这种严重威胁民用航空安全的行为是一个艰难的过程。为了保障国际民航安全,各主权国家应当摒弃在恐怖主义定义上的分歧,以国际社会的共同利益为重,积极参加打击劫持航空器行为国际公约,并履行本国参加国际公约所承担的义务制定或者修改国内法,从国际法和国内法两个层面对劫持航空器的行为进行规制。

On March 8, 2014, a passenger flight of a certain airliner lost contact promptly, and the possibility that the aircraft was hijacked could not be ruled out at all. It is submitted that if the speculation has come true eventually, this latest incident reminds us how hard it is to resort to legal means to prevent and suppress aerial hijacking an act jeopardizing civil aviation. It could be argued that, however, to ensure security of international civil aviation, it is mandatory for States to make common interest of international community as a whole as top priority, and to let aside divergences arisen from reaching a uniform definition of terrorism. Moreover, it is also critical for States to access international conventions for preventing and suppressing aerial hijacking, to carry out obligations from accessing international conventions by new legislation or amending related domestic law accordingly, so as to regulate aerial hijacking at both international law plane and domestic law olane as well.