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air piracy

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air piracy
n.
1. The hijacking or wrongful seizure of an aircraft.
2. The illegal reception and descrambling of television signals relayed by satellite.
air pirate n.


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David was an information officer for the Federal Aviation Administration and while there he was asked to be part of a special task force to prevent air piracy.
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4635) would "establish a program to deputize volunteer pilots of air carriers providing air transportation or intrastate air transportation as federal law enforcement officers to defend the flight decks of aircraft of such air carriers against acts of criminal violence or air piracy.
The conservative index: our final look at the 107th Congress shows ... by The New American
officials, including an FBI agent, is being sent to the site because the ``hijacking appears to be air piracy, and that is a crime under U.
HIJACKED JETLINER CRASHES IN OCEAN : AT LEAST 55 KILLED OFF EAST ... by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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