Cyber Operations – the New Risk for the Aviation Safety

International and national civil aviation have been linked with a confidence. The term of confidence is a safe and secure civil aviation. Today the internatio- nal and national civil aviation have been threatened by the illegal interference. The author wishes to answer the question whether cyber operations are arms in terms of Article 3bis of the Convention on International Civil Aviation whi- ch prohibits to the Member States the use of weapons against civil aircrafts in flight. The Convention does not provide the precise meaning of the term arms. Therefore, there is a need to examine closely the effects of misuse of cyber operations on civil aviation in the sense of components which could certify a thesis that the cyber operations are arms.

Keywords: Article 3bis of the Convention on International Civil Aviation, cy- ber operations, arms, safety and security of civil aviation.