"German criminal law applies, regardless of the law of the place, for acts committed on a ship or an aircraft which is entitled to the federal flag or bear the nationality mark of the Federal Republic of Germany to lead. "
- § 4, Penal Code
German planes are flying a piece of Germany. A murder on a Lufthansa flight will be prosecuted under German criminal law. While I would be convicted for a crime under U.S. law on a Delta flight, for example, an Air France flight can look quite different legal matter. How far can aircraft be islands of law - or the oppression? This is exactly me that is happening. Booked
the transatlantic flight with KLM from Amsterdam was departing from the land of freedom to the land of the free. KLM now informed me a few Weeks before the flight that had been rescheduled on Delta, which is a partner of KLM. What this meant for my rights? How did KLM, if I had booked the flight with Delta, given the fact that I now was subject to American law? So I had already been refused on Dutch air space a can of beer. Through the window you could take the view of sea of clouds and blue sky - the feeling of boundless freedom! The aircraft itself will be stripped of his civil rights because it is not by chance 21 (an American policy of more or less arbitrarily fixed age).
When the mental game a little more gear: you'd get for possession of small amounts of cannabis, which you take while flying in food to be on a Delta flight from Amsterdam to the U.S. trouble with Delta, although the drug so do not even introduce into the country is? Do homosexuals get on a flight with Qatar Airways fear? Can I do if I think the whole plane over German airspace a lecture on the genocide of the Armenians with Turkish Airlines for "insulting Turkishness" in conflict?
In presenting this lack of freedom where it really freedom "without borders" (ie not the same "unlimited") should be raised - for me at least - the hair on the neck ...
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