Flight is an Implied Admission of Guilt (original) (raw)
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The thousands of year’s human beings have looked to the skies with hope and admiration. The dreams of achieving artificial flight have occupied the imaginations of thinkers and engineers since the days of ancient Greece right up to the time of Leonardo da Vinci. Although these flights of fancy were ultimately futile, in 1903 Wilbur and Orrville Wright finally turned centuries of dreaming into reality when they flew 120 feet in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina on December 17th, 1903. Aviation law is the branch of international law that concerns flight, air travel, and associated legal and business concerns. Some of its area of concern overlaps that of admiralty law and in many cases, aviation law is considered a matter of international law due to the nature of air travel. However, the business aspects of airlines and their regulation also fall under aviation law. In the United States, the Federal Aviation Administration [FAA] governs applied aspects of flight. In the international realm, the International Civil Aviation Organization [ICAO] provides general rules and mediates international concerns to an extent regarding aviation law.