The (
German for ''Aviation Security Act'') is a German law created in response to the
September 11 attacks
The September 11 attacks, also known as 9/11, were four coordinated Islamist terrorist suicide attacks by al-Qaeda against the United States in 2001. Nineteen terrorists hijacked four commercial airliners, crashing the first two into ...
which came into force on 15th January, 2005. ยง 14 (3) would have granted the permission to use weapons against commercial airliners once their designation as a
weapon by hijackers had become apparent. However, the clause was declared unconstitutional by the
Federal Constitutional Court
The Federal Constitutional Court ( ; abbreviated: ) is the supreme constitutional court for the Federal Republic of Germany, established by the constitution or Basic Law () of Germany. Since its inception with the beginning of the post-W ...
on 15 February 2006.
The court affirmed that the sacrifice of innocent lives to the benefit of another group violated the unconditionally protected
human dignity under Article 1 of the
German constitution.
See also
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:de:Urteil des Bundesverfassungsgerichts zum Luftsicherheitsgesetz 2005
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Trolley problem
The trolley problem is a series of thought experiments in ethics, psychology, and artificial intelligence involving stylized ethical dilemmas of whether to sacrifice one person to save a larger number. The series usually begins with a Scenario ...
References
External links
Full text of the law
* ttps://www.sicherheit-das-fachmagazin.de/ausgaben/ausgabe-6/ Guidelinesbr>Guideline risk assessmentGuideline threat managementTransitional settlement 2005/2017/2019
Law of Germany
Aircraft hijacking
Aviation safety organizations
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