Antihijacking Act

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] Title I: Antihijacking Act - Antihijacking Act - Expands the definition of the term "special aircraft jurisdiction of the United States" when used in the Federal Aviation Act to include the following aircraft while in flight: (1) any aircraft outside the United States that has "an offense", as defined in the convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Seizure of Aircraft, committed aboard, if the aircraft lands in the United States with the alleged offender still aboard; and (2) other aircraft leased without crew to a lessee who has his principal place of business in the United States, or his permanent residence in the United States. Provides that whoever aboard an aircraft in flight outside the special aircraft jurisdiction of the United States commits "an offense", as defined in the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Seizure of Aircraft, and is afterward found in the United States shall be punished by death if convicted or by imprisonment for not less than 20 years if the accused surrendered himself to the captain of the aircraft. Provides that whenever the President determines that a foreign nation is acting in a manner inconsistent with the Convention for the Suppression…