Jurisdiction over acts and occurrences on board an aircraft.

The subject of this paper has been much discussed. For even before the Wright Brothers had successfully test-flown their aeroplane, Fauchille in 1902, had already drafted his “Legal Regime of the Aerostats". In that paper provisions were made regarding crimes and birth of a child in a balloon. From that time on up to the present, the subject has been pursued intermittently by international law associations and by well-known publicists. Various conferences or congresses had discussed the subject, but nothing beyond the proposal stage was done