The International Federation of Airline Pilots Associations approved resolutions today directed against interference with civil aviation including attacks on airliners like the one against El Al at Zurich. It called for an amendment to the Tokyo convention on civil aviation so that the document would apply to “offenses committed against aircraft, passengers and crew on board or outside the aircraft whether in the air or on the ground.”
The Federation which claims to represent some 70 percent of the world’s airline pilots, approved a resolution at its annual meeting which said that member pilots might boycott any country that failed to punish a plane hijacker or detained a crew of a hijacked plane. (The Algerian Government last summer detained crew members of an El Al airliner hijacked by Palestinian terrorists and forced to fly to Algiers.)
Another move to stimulate punishment of hijackers might be coordinated action to restrict movement of a country’s aircraft and to restrict movement of cargo to and from a country. The Association indicated that it might call a worldwide 12 or 24-hour strike if hijacking was not suitably punished.
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