Singapore legislation
Clause 5
Clause 5
Destroying, damaging or endangering safety of aircraft
(1)
Subject to subsection (4), any person who unlawfully and intentionally —
destroys an aircraft in service or so damages such aircraft as to render it incapable of fight or as to be likely to endanger its safety in flight; or
commits on board an aircraft in flight any act of violence which is likely to endanger the safety of the aircraft,shall be guilty of an offence under this Act.
(2)
Subject to subsection (4), any person who unlawfully and intentionally places or causes to be placed on an aircraft in service any device or substance which is likely to destroy the aircraft or is likely so to damage it as to render it incapable of flight or as to be likely to endanger its safety in flight shall be guilty of an offence under this Act; but nothing in this subsection shall be construed as limiting the circumstances in which the commission of any act —
may constitute an offence under subsection (1); or
may constitute attempting or conspiring to commit or abetting the commission of such offence.
(3)
Except as provided by subsection (4), subsections (1) and (2) apply whether any such act therein mentioned is committed in Singapore or elsewhere, whatever the nationality or citizenship of the person committing the act or whatever the State in which the aircraft is registered.
(4)
Subsections (1) and (2) do not apply to any act committed in relation to an aircraft used in military, customs or police service unless —
the act is committed in or over Singapore; or
where the act is committed outside Singapore, the person committing the act is a citizen of Singapore.