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![handle is hein.death/anhijac0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Union Calendar No. 401
93D CONGRESS HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES I REPORT
2d Se8sion t No. 93-885
ANTIHIJACKING ACT OF 1974
MARCH 7, 1974.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House'on $Jte
State of the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. STAGGERS, from the Committee on Interstate and Foreign
Commerce, submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany H.R. 3858]
The Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, to whom was
referred the bill (H.R. 3858) to amend sections 101 and 902 of the
Federal Aviation Act of 1958 to implement the Convention for the
Suppression of Unlawful Seizure of Aircraft; to amend title XI of
such Act to authorize the President to suspend air service to any
foreign nation which he determines is encouraging aircraft hijacking
by acting in a manner inconsistent with the Convention for the Sup-
pression of Unlawful Seizure of Aircraft; and to authorize the Secre-
tary of Transportation to suspend the operating authority of foreign
air carriers under certain circumstances, having considered the same,
report favorably thereon with amendments and recommend that the
bill as amended do pass.
The amendments are as follows:
1. Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert in lieu thereof
the following:
TITLE I-ANTIHIJACKING ACT OF 1974
SEC. 101. This title may be cited as the Antihijacking Act of 1974.
SEC. 102. Section 101(32) of the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 (49 U.S.C. 1301
(32) ), relating to the definition of the term special aircraft jurisdiction of the
United States, is amended to read as follows:
(32) The term 'special aircraft jurisdiction of the United States' includes-
(a) civil aircraft of the United States;
(b) aircraft of the national defense forces of the United States;
(c) any other aircraft within the United States;
(d) any other aircraft outside the United States-
(i) that has its next scheduled destination or last point of departure
in the United States, if that aircraft next actually lands in the United
States; or
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