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This thesis is composed of major parts, as well as the introduction and conclusion. / The second part of this thesis provides an overview the offence of aircraft hijacking, providing the foundation for this thesis. This part defines and introduces the terminology of aircraft hijacking, the relationship between hijacking and aerial terrorism, the categories of aerial terrorism, a comparative analysis of the concept of aircraft hijacking, the historic evolution of hijacking, and the present situation and characters of hijacking. / Next, the third part will conduct a comprehensive study of the international Conventions available for combating hijacking, including the Tokyo Convention, The Hague Convention and the Montreal Convention. / The fourth part will study domestic laws available for combating aircraft hijacking, including those of the United States of America, the United Kingdom, Canada, France, the Russian Federation, and the People's Republic of China. / Finally, the fifth part of this thesis will analyze the concerted enforcement of international Conventions for combating hijacking.

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This thesis is a novel about the 1971 skyjacking of a plane out of Portland Airport. The novel is structured in the style of a choose-your-own-adventure book. It investigates the nature and identity of the skyjacker, who is known as D. B. Cooper.

After the terrorist attacks that took place on September 11, 2001, on American soil, a plethora of norms that enable military forces to shoot-down hijacked civil aircraft have been passed in several countries. Although these laws, decrees and executive orders are grounded on security reasons and they are allegedly aimed to protect people and vital interests on ground, this assertion does not emasculate the main difficulty they face in legal terms, which is the existence of an international provision that forbids the use of force against civilian aircraft. This thesis contains a detailed list of such domestic norms and conducts an analysis of their validity from the perspective of Article 3bis of the Chicago Convention and the right of self-defense granted to states by the Charter of the United Nations.