More and more frequently, incidents caused by passengers occur on board commercial aircraft. Disruptive passengers behaviour varies from case to case. They can consist for example in being abusive towards crew members or other fellow passengers, in refusing to follow safety instructions or even in committing acts of violence against persons on board. All these behavioural patterns often jeopardize aviation safety. Airlines have recently become aware of the seriousness of this phenomenon and of the danger it can be for safety. ICAO itself has put a study group in charge of evaluating the situation and making suggestions. The following study analyses at first the answers given to the problem of disruptive passengers by the international conventions related to aviation safety while pointing out that these solutions yet contain serious loopholes. It then examines the question of the airlines liability resulting from acts committed by disruptive passengers and, briefly, the disruptive passengers liability towards the victims of their acts. / Finally, after a brief overview of the solutions given by U.S. law, the following study addresses the question of the need of a new international instrument.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.29940 |
| Date | January 1999 |
| Creators | Schrenzel, Guy. |
| Contributors | Milde, Michael (advisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | French |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Laws (Institute of Air and Space Law.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: 001681061, proquestno: MQ55108, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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