Hague Convention. Article 1(a) of the Hague Convention546 makes it an offence punishable under Article 2 by “severe penalties” where any person on board an aircraft in flight: “unlawfully, by force or threat thereof, or by any other form of intimidation, seizes, or exercises control of, that aircraft, or attempts to perform such act…”547 One point worth perhaps just noting is that a Contracting State must establish its jurisdiction over offences covered by the Convention not only when the aircraft in question is registered in such state548 or located within its territory549 but also: “when the offence is committed on board an aircraft leased without crew to a lessee who has his principal place of business or, if the lessee has no such place of business, his permanent residence, in that State.”550 Nevertheless, it is submitted that, apart from this provision, as with the Tokyo Convention, the Hague Convention has little or no applicability to the lessor-lessee relationship.
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