# The Armed Forces (Prescribed Air Navigation Order Offences) Order 2009, Article 3: Prescribed Air Navigation Order offences


The following Air Navigation Order offences are prescribed Air Navigation Order offences for the purposes of section 49(1) and (4) of the Act—
(a) recklessly or negligently acting in a manner likely to endanger an aircraft, or any person in the aircraft, under article 73 of the Order;
(b) recklessly or negligently causing or permitting an aircraft to endanger any person or property under article 74 of the Order;
(c) entering an aircraft when drunk, or being drunk in an aircraft, under article 75(1) of the Order;
(d) when acting as a member of the crew of an aircraft or while carried in an aircraft for the purpose of so acting, being under the influence of drink or a drug to such an extent as to impair his capacity so to act, under article 75(2) of the Order;
(e) while in an aircraft, failing to obey a lawful command which the commander of an aircraft may give for the purpose of securing the safety of the aircraft and of persons or property carried in it, or the safety, efficiency or regularity of air navigation, under article 77 of the Order;
(f) while in an aircraft, using threatening, abusive or insulting words towards a member of the crew of the aircraft under article 78(a) of the Order;
(g) while in an aircraft, behaving in a threatening, abusive, insulting or disorderly manner towards a member of the crew of the aircraft under article 78(b) of the Order; and
(h) while in an aircraft, intentionally interfering with the performance by a member of the crew of the aircraft of his duties under article 78(c) of the Order.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2009/1094/article/3 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-prescribed-air-navigation-order-offences-order-2009/article-3
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