1402
Aircraft Piracy and Other Title 49
Offenses1984 Aircraft Sabotage Act
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Part B of Chapter XX of the Comprehensive Crime Control Act
of 1984 (Pub. L. No. 98-473, October 12, 1984), contains the
Aircraft Sabotage Act. The purpose of the Aircraft Sabotage Act
was to implement fully the Convention for the Suppression of
Unlawful Acts Against the Safety of Civil Aviation (also known as
the Montreal Convention). See Treaties and Other
International Acts Series, No. 7570 (T.I.A.S. 7570); 24 U.S.T. 564. While
the
Aircraft Sabotage Act made
several changes to 18 U.S.C. § 32 (Destruction of aircraft
and related facilities) (see this Manual at 1421), the act also made
several significant changes to various provisions of the Federal
Aviation Act of 1958, as amended.
The legislative history of the Aircraft Sabotage Act appears
at pages 13-18 of the Message from the President of the United
States Transmitting Four Drafts of Proposed Legislation to Attack
the Pressing and Urgent Problem of International Terrorism,
H.R. Doc. No. 211, 98th Cong., 2d Sess.; in S. Rep. No. 619 on S.
2623, the Aircraft Sabotage Act, 98th Cong., 2d Sess.; and 130
Cong. Rec. E-4567 to E-4568 (daily ed. November 14, 1984).
[updated August 1999] [cited in Criminal Resource Manual 1421; USAM 9-63.100] | |