Nigeria's government would later try him in absentia for the crime of "air piracy."
The others were sentenced to 30-year terms for air piracy and conspiracy.
The death toll, put at 67 by Iraq, was the highest in the history of air piracy.
The 1973 law is confined to air piracy and the other to espionage by military personnel in peace time.
I don't think they have a leg to stand on regarding air piracy.
After all, air piracy has been used in Middle Eastern terrorism for over 30 years.
They'll be tried, convicted, and imprisoned for air piracy.
Do you realize you can get the death penalty for air piracy?
He would still recommend charges of air piracy, of course.
The case remains the only unsolved air piracy in American aviation history.