항공기범죄에 대한 형사법적 대응방안

The Criminal Countermeasures against the Aircraft Crime

We have come to rely tremendously on the convenience afforded by air travel, however as much as advancements in air travel have made better more convenient for us, we cannot fail to look at the other side of it. The rise air traffic improved the impetus of terrorist groups providing them with a new objective and another means for acts of violence and crime. This study will look at the structure of a legal system that will aid aviation security and prevent hijacking and implement this system as a legal mechanism for the prevent of terrorism in the air. The current Aviation Safety Act, and Aviation Security Act seems to have many problems which do not meet the practical needs in Korea, because there were not enough consideration on civil aviation system in Korea, but only regarded the relevant international conventions and foreign practices on it. Now it is necessary to amend several provisions in Aviation Safety Act, and Aviation Security Act to enhance more practical efficiencies in its implementation through systematization of the provisions on crime which may happen during aviation. UAVs(Drones) are used attack aircrafts equipped with weapons like missile. The legal problems and conflicts with other legal system that can occur with the increasing uses if the UAVs. The new effective regulation in domestic legal system on the use of the UAVs must be needed. The universality principle is applicable to the aircraft crime as the hostage crime, and if a person who has committed the crime of hostage taking after aircraft hijacking, the punishment must be strengthen.