Penalty framework for the crime of assigning unqualified persons to control an aircraft

Article 280The Penal Code 2015 (amended and supplemented in 2017) stipulatesCrime of mobilizing or assigning an unqualified person to control an aircraft, as follows:

1. Anyone who mobilizes or assigns a person who does not have a pilot license or does not meet other conditions as prescribed by law to operate an aircraft shall be subject to imprisonment from 01 year to 05 years.

2. Committing a crime in one of the following cases shall be punishable by imprisonment from 05 years to 10 years:

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 the total body injury rate of these people from 61% to 121%;

d) Causing property damage from VND 100,000,000 to under VND 500,000,000.

3. Committing a crime in one of the following cases shall be punishable by imprisonment from 07 years to 15 years:

a) Killing 02 people;

b) Causing injury or damage to the health of 02 or more people, with the total body injury rate of these people from 122% to 200%;

c) Causing property damage from VND 500,000,000 to under VND 1,500,000,000.

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

a) Causing the death of 03 people or more;

b) Causing injury or damage to the health of 03 or more people, with the total body injury rate of these people being 201% or more;

c) Causing property damage of VND 1,500,000,000 or more.

5. The offender may also be banned from holding positions, practicing a profession or doing certain jobs from 01 to 05 years.”.