Air Rage
(A) The first recorded case of an airline passenger turning seriously violent during a flight, a
phenomenon now widely known as “air rage”, happened in 1947 on a flight from Havana to Miami. A
drunk man assaulted another passenger and bit a flight attendant. However, the man escaped
punishment because it was not then clear under whose legal control a crime committed on plane was,
the country where the plane was registered or the country where the crime was committed. In 1963, at
the Tokyo convention, it was decided that the laws of the country where the plane is registered take