Terms Used In Idaho Code 21-702

  • Aircraft: means any contrivance now known or hereafter invented used or designed for navigation of or flight in the air. See Idaho Code 21-701
  • Aircraft engine: means an engine used or intended to be used for propulsion of aircraft and includes all parts, appurtenances and accessories thereof other than propellers. See Idaho Code 21-701
  • Aircraft navigation facility: means any facility used in, available for use in, or designed for use in, aid of air navigation, including landing areas, lights, any apparatus or equipment for disseminating weather information, for signaling, for radio-directional finding, or for radio or other electrical communication, and any other structure or mechanism having a similar purpose for guiding or controlling flight in the air or the landing and takeoff of aircraft. See Idaho Code 21-701
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • Person: means any individual, firm, copartnership, corporation, company, association, joint-stock association, or body politic; and includes any trustee, receiver, assignee, or other similar representative thereof. See Idaho Code 21-701
  • Propeller: includes all parts, appurtenances, and accessories thereof. See Idaho Code 21-701
Any person who intentionally or with reckless disregard for the safety of human life:
(a)  damages, destroys, disables, sets fire to, tampers with, or wrecks any aircraft, aircraft navigation facility, or aircraft engine, propeller, radio, antenna or spare part, or cuts any wire or removes, damages, or tampers with any functional part of any aircraft or air navigation facility, or,
(b)  places or causes to be placed any destructive substance in, upon, or in proximity to, any such aircraft or any aircraft engine, propeller, appliance, spare part, fuel, lubricant, hydraulic fluid or other material used or intended to be used in connection with the operation of any such aircraft or any cargo carried or intended to be carried on any such aircraft or otherwise makes or causes to be made any such aircraft, engine, propeller, appliance, spare part, fuel, lubricant, hydraulic fluid or other material unworkable or unusable or hazardous to work or use, or
(c)  removes, steals, takes or carries away any part of an aircraft, aircraft engine, propeller, radio, air navigation facility or appliance used in connection with an aircraft, or
(d)  throws an object at, or drops an object upon, a moving aircraft, such object having the apparent capability to do harm, or
(e)  discharges an arrow, gun, airgun or firearm at or toward an aircraft,
shall be guilty of a felony and shall be punished by a fine of not more than ten thousand dollars ($10,000) or imprisonment for not more than twenty (20) years, or by both such fine and imprisonment.