I bet you have never considered this issue.
Imagine yourself pregnant for a long time, almost to the pre-production period, in order to allow our thinking to continue the game, assuming you are a married American woman (spouse is also an American). Boarding soon, though considering you are a pregnant woman, but airlines still allow you on the plane.
You take classes Lufthansa from Frankfurt, Germany to the Maldives in the Indian Ocean island, without intermediate stops. Germany is very cold, very wet, not fun, but the Maldives blue sea and fragrant air, just think very look forward to.
Aircraft took off slowly, a few hours after the flight, plane is flying at 37,000 feet above the Pakistani port city of Karachi, a high sky, south Maldives fly to your dreams, but this time your baby is born suddenly decide immediately - just Thus, sitting in business class 13B of you give birth to a healthy baby on the plane. And when the baby is born the plane just above the Pakistani territory. Children cry ... the first sound of life, in Karachi away, everyone on the plane - you, your baby and crew are safe.
The question is, an American mother in flight on Pakistan airspace babies born to German aircraft, in the end what should be the nationality?
United States, Germany, Pakistan, the Maldives? Several nationality or both? Or should we listen to the baby's meaning? Or mother to make a decision? Or the people of Pakistan have the final say?
I (the original author) ask this question, because it was Alastair Bonnett in his "Unruly Spaces" a book put forward the same question. In the book, ask a question, "Who has control over the air?"
In fact, in ancient Britain, the Basic Law, wrote: "Cuius est solum, eius est usque ad coelum et ad inferos" translates to "Who owns the land on to the next heaven to hell is who."
Of course, this is the law of ancient times, it is the consensus of the people in a hot air balloon, aircraft, V2 rocket, before the appearance of the era spy satellites reached. Today, the rules have become much more subtle: the use and enjoyment of the land must be owned by you all airspace. So how high can airspace of it?
Obviously, not so high. What clouds, not yours.
I said earlier that the individual countries to define airspace more bold. Some countries expressed their airspace is above ground 43 miles (about 70 kilometers) airspace within, say some 99 miles (about 160 km). Everyone agrees that there should be the upper limit of the national airspace, but jurisprudence is different. The view was expressed that if there is not enough high-altitude aircraft flying air support, then this place should be the starting point of outer space. The other view is that since it is airspace satellite orbit path must be included. 1976 "Bogot Declaration", the eight equatorial countries above their respective Land 22,300 miles (35,903 km) of airspace designated as national airspace. - This is the height of the location to stay geostationary satellites.
Air Birth Problems
No matter how much the national territory, most of the area on the earth covered by oceans, ocean does not belong to anyone, when we fly over the ocean, we say from geopolitical or does not belong to any country or can belong to any country. However, maritime law that as long as your ship is registered in France, boarded the ship you say from a legal perspective on riding in the French territory.
Alastair Bonnett writes: "If your aircraft registered in Norway, if you are in the middle of the flight over the Pacific Ocean, to the time of flight between Fiji and Tahiti, you are still in the Norwegian territory, must comply with Norway legal "so he thought of the air-born babies question:
This rule also believe that a child born on the plane sometimes with the nationality of the aircraft registration country, sometimes with his parents nationality.
Still depends on the circumstances. In addition to airline's country of registration can be set infant's nationality, the State may decide to passing planes. Some countries allow flying over its airspace babies registered its nationality. But not all countries are true.
Alastair said:. "If you were born in the United States over land, but you are not born of aircraft registered in the United States, your parents are foreigners, even so, you still can get US citizenship." Really? This big party!
I may be the only one in the world so obsessed with this issue, but I dare say, a lawyer, flight attendants, air or a real baby, know that in the end there must be someone in charge of air born babies General exist. Is there a convention that is being observed by most countries. Or that all births should be according to the specific details, depending on the person, depending on the time and place?
The current practice is that no matter what, and I have a suggestion. If you leave the Earth, we see around this big blue ball of thin air, you will feel the air should have its own special legal name, any person born in this piece of sky, and he should have additional privileges. If I were king of the world, born in any aircraft or, balloon or airship Ye Hao, they do between Germany, the Maldives or the United States hesitated, they should have their own special sky blue passport, passport cover on the stork, printed next to "sky baby" tag - as long as they are happy, they want to go, where to go, to what nationality is the nationality. But after all, just one of my talk.
(Compiled: Wang via NPR)
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