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This guy: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Carruthers https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Carruthers Whenever you change planes in USA, you are formally

This guy: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Carruthers https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Carruthers Whenever you change planes in USA, you are formally entering USA and subject to regular USA law. The bigger case more recently was Belarus forcing down a Ryanair plane carrying an activist while overflying Belarusian airspace to arrest him: https://www.voanews.com/a/europe_lukashenko-defends-diverting-flight-belarus-arrest-activist/6206213.html https://www.voanews.com/a/europe_lukashenko-defends-divertin... There’s also a Case out there of a birth on a flight between USA and Qatar being granted Canadian citizenship because the flight was over Canadian soil at the time of delivery: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birth_aboard_aircraft_and_ships https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birth_aboard_aircraft_and_sh... https://www.ctvnews.ca/mobile/canada/air-born-will-baby-delivered-mid-flight-get-canadian-citizenship-1.2368565 https://www.ctvnews.ca/mobile/canada/air-born-will-baby-deli...

kmlx 5y ago
yes, this is one of the reasons i never take flights that transit thru the US. their border situation is atrocious, and the fact that I have to enter their country for a transit is simply kafka-esque. instead of being a civilised country when it comes to transit they’re basically the belarus of north america.
- Scoundreller 5y ago
  To be honest, any country that wants to arrest you would have no issues with grabbing you from the transit lounge/terminal. It costs the US airlines and airports a lot of business because US requirements to enter are difficult while other countries just use their brain and help out their airlines by permitting transit-without-entry.
monkeybutton 5y ago
That's it! No wonder I couldn't find it, I had half the details wrong. Online gambling, arrested mid-trip and in 2006. But British not Russian, Texas not Florida and no unscheduled maintenance. Funny how the mind fills in the blanks 15 years after passively reading a news article.
BlueTemplar 5y ago
The Belarus case broke at least one big international agreement about planes. Was that even remotely the case for that situation in the USA ?

kmlx 5y ago

yes, this is one of the reasons i never take flights that transit thru the US. their border situation is atrocious, and the fact that I have to enter their country for a transit is simply kafka-esque. instead of being a civilised country when it comes to transit they’re basically the belarus of north america.

Scoundreller 5y ago
To be honest, any country that wants to arrest you would have no issues with grabbing you from the transit lounge/terminal. It costs the US airlines and airports a lot of business because US requirements to enter are difficult while other countries just use their brain and help out their airlines by permitting transit-without-entry.

monkeybutton 5y ago

That's it! No wonder I couldn't find it, I had half the details wrong. Online gambling, arrested mid-trip and in 2006. But British not Russian, Texas not Florida and no unscheduled maintenance. Funny how the mind fills in the blanks 15 years after passively reading a news article.

BlueTemplar 5y ago

The Belarus case broke at least one big international agreement about planes. Was that even remotely the case for that situation in the USA ?