Cap. 353 Art. 18Interpretation.

(1) In this Part, unless the context otherwise requires -

"airport" means any area of land or water designed, equipped, set apart or commonly used for affording facilities for the take-off and landing of aircraft; "Convention country" means a country in which the Montreal Convention and the Montreal Protocol are for the time being in force.

(2) For the purposes of this Part -

(a) an aircraft shall be deemed to be in flight at any time from the moment when all its external doors are closed following embarkation until the moment when any such door is opened for disembarkation, and in the case of a forced landing, the flight shall be deemed to continue until the competent authorities of the country beginning of the pre-flight preparation of the aircraft by the ground staff or by the crew for a specific flight until twenty-four hours after any landing and the period of such service shall include the entire period during which the aircraft is in flight.