{"id":12512,"date":"2025-12-05T05:01:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T05:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalserviceindia.com\/Legal-Articles\/?p=12512"},"modified":"2025-12-05T05:12:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T05:12:23","slug":"cross-border-prosecution-of-ghost-flights-used-for-illicit-transport-an-international-criminal-law-vacuum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalserviceindia.com\/Legal-Articles\/cross-border-prosecution-of-ghost-flights-used-for-illicit-transport-an-international-criminal-law-vacuum\/","title":{"rendered":"Cross-Border Prosecution of \u2018Ghost Flights\u2019 Used for Illicit Transport: An International Criminal Law Vacuum"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/span>Introduction<\/span><\/h2>\n

The rapid expansion of global civil aviation has created new vulnerabilities that criminal networks exploit with increasing sophistication. Among the most under-regulated and least understood of these threats are \u201cghost flights\u201d\u2014unregistered, covert, or deliberately misreported aircraft movements used to transport persons, weapons, drugs, wildlife, laundered cash, or sanctioned goods across international borders. Unlike conventional aviation operations, ghost flights operate outside formal air-traffic control systems, often flying without transponders, filing false flight plans, or using fraudulent aircraft registration numbers. Their clandestine nature makes them ideal for transnational organized crime syndicates, terrorist organisations, human traffickers, and sanctions violators.<\/p>

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