How is the criminal act of hijacking an aircraft or ship handled?

Article 282,Penal Code 2015 (amended and supplemented in 2017 atparagraphs 2, 3 and 4) regulationssinhijacking aircraft and ships, as follows:

1. Anyone who uses force, threatens to use force or uses other tricks to seize an aircraft or ship shall be sentenced to imprisonment from 07 years to 15 years.

2. Committing a crime in one of the following cases shall be punishable by imprisonment from 12 to 20 years:

a) Organized;

b) Use of weapons, means or other dangerous tricks;

c) Causing injury or damage to the health of another person with a bodily injury rate of 31% to 60%;

d) Appropriation of property from VND 200,000,000 to under VND 500,000,000;

d) Dangerous recidivism.

3. Committing a crime in one of the following cases shall be punishable by 20 years' imprisonment or life imprisonment:

a) Causing death;

b) Causing injury or damage to the health of another person with a bodily injury rate of 61% or more;

c) Causing injury or damage to the health of 02 or more people, with each person's body injury rate being 31% or more;

d) Appropriation of property worth VND 500,000,000 or more.

4. The offender may also be fined from VND 10,000,000 to VND 100,000,000, placed on probation, banned from residence from 01 to 05 years or have part or all of his/her property confiscated.