kurtjeter From United States of America, joined Feb 2011, 48 posts, RR: 0 Posted (1 year 2 months 4 weeks 23 hours ago) and read 2416 times:
As many of us know, about a week ago on an AT42 flight from Warsaw to Prague while descending through 12 thousand en route to a landing the pilot died. RIP to the pilot, condolences to his family and friends.
I remember reading--although I can't remember the statistics--about the number of deaths (crew & passengers) on commercial aircraft each year, as well as the number of births (to passengers only, I presume!). Anyone know the numbers?
Airontario From Canada, joined Aug 2001, 502 posts, RR: 1 Reply 3, posted (1 year 2 months 4 weeks 11 hours ago) and read 2317 times:
Quoting HT (Reply 1): Which place and date of birth / of death are entered into the respective files, especially if intercontinental flights are concerned here ?
I always thought that if there is a birth on an aircraft, the place of birth is considered to be in the country of the aircraft's registry. Not sure how true that is.
kurtjeter From United States of America, joined Feb 2011, 48 posts, RR: 0 Reply 4, posted (1 year 2 months 3 weeks 6 days 20 hours ago) and read 2212 times:
Quoting HT (Reply 1): Which place and date of birth / of death are entered into the respective files, especially if intercontinental flights are concerned here ?
A really great question. There's a wealth of i nformation at this link--
AR385 From Mexico, joined Nov 2003, 4839 posts, RR: 28 Reply 5, posted (1 year 2 months 3 weeks 6 days 19 hours ago) and read 2202 times:
Quoting Airontario (Reply 3): I always thought that if there is a birth on an aircraft, the place of birth is considered to be in the country of the aircraft's registry. Not sure how true that is.
That depends. If the country goes by "Ius Solis", then sure. If it goes by "Ius Sanguinis", then the citizenship of the newborn depends on the citizenship of the parents.
As an aside note, deaths must occur frequently enough, as SQ has a small morgue on its A345s
Good stuff, but is US centric only.
If the birth occurred on an Australian registered aircraft the baby would be regarded as born in Australia, at VH-OQA, for example. But the baby's citizenship would depend on other factors. If at least one parent was a legal Australian permanent resident, then the baby would have Australian citizenship. If neither parent did then it would be considered a citizen of the country of the parents citizenship. If they had different citizenship, I think it is the mothers country of citizenship.
Just being born on Australian soil does NOT give Australian citizenship.
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