The successive wave of hijacking of airplanes at gunpoint in 1961 made the press declare that the newest form of transportation had been struck by "air-age piracy''. The hijacking of airplanes is not new, however. The earliest cases had political implications as they involved the seizure of Czechoslovakian airplanes by refugees from communist-controlled countries who compelled the pilots to fly to the American zone of West Germany. The series of seizures of Cuban airplanes by political refugees who flew them to the United States were of the same vein. So, allegedly, was the seizure of a DC-8 jetliner by a French Algerian who sought to draw attention to the Algerian problem.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.115021 |
| Date | January 1962 |
| Creators | Villamin, Maria. L. |
| Contributors | Rosevear, A. (Supervisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Laws. (Department of Law.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: NNNNNNNNN, Theses scanned by McGill Library. |
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