United States Ninth Circuit

Under 18 USC 32(a)(6), evidence that person called a fake bomb threat to get an airplane to return to the airport is sufficient for a conviction of endangering an aircraft in flight where the airplane reversed course and its crew suffered increased stress.

Appellate Information

• Argued 01/10/2001
• Decided 03/29/2001
• Published 03/29/2001

Judges

• GOODWIN, Circuit Judge:, Before:  GOODWIN, GRABER, and PAEZ, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Shawn Halbert, Assistant Federal Public Defender, San Francisco, California, for the defendant-appellant., Laurie Kloster Gray, Assistant United States Attorney, San Francisco, California, for the plaintiff-appellee.