[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 49, Volume 7]
[Revised as of October 1, 2006]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 49CFR830.5]

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                        TITLE 49--TRANSPORTATION
 
           CHAPTER VIII--NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SAFETY BOARD
 
PART 830_NOTIFICATION AND REPORTING OF AIRCRAFT ACCIDENTS OR INCIDENTS AND 
 
  Subpart B_Initial Notification of Aircraft Accidents, Incidents, and 
                            Overdue Aircraft
 
Sec.  830.5  Immediate notification.


    The operator of any civil aircraft, or any public aircraft not 
operated by the Armed Forces or an intelligence agency of the United 
States, or any foreign aircraft shall immediately, and by the most 
expeditious means available, notify the nearest National Transportation 
Safety Board (Board) field office \1\ when:
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    \1\ The Board field offices are listed under U.S. Government in the 
telephone directories of the following cities: Anchorage, AK, Atlanta, 
GA, West Chicago, IL, Denver, CO, Arlington, TX, Gardena (Los Angeles), 
CA, Miami, FL, Parsippany, NJ (metropolitan New York, NY), Seattle, WA, 
and Washington, DC.
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    (a) An aircraft accident or any of the following listed incidents 
occur:
    (1) Flight control system malfunction or failure;
    (2) Inability of any required flight crewmember to perform normal 
flight duties as a result of injury or illness;
    (3) Failure of structural components of a turbine engine excluding 
compressor and turbine blades and vanes;
    (4) In-flight fire; or
    (5) Aircraft collide in flight.
    (6) Damage to property, other than the aircraft, estimated to exceed 
$25,000 for repair (including materials and labor) or fair market value 
in the event of total loss, whichever is less.
    (7) For large multiengine aircraft (more than 12,500 pounds maximum 
certificated takeoff weight):

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    (i) In-flight failure of electrical systems which requires the 
sustained use of an emergency bus powered by a back-up source such as a 
battery, auxiliary power unit, or air-driven generator to retain flight 
control or essential instruments;
    (ii) In-flight failure of hydraulic systems that results in 
sustained reliance on the sole remaining hydraulic or mechanical system 
for movement of flight control surfaces;
    (iii) Sustained loss of the power or thrust produced by two or more 
engines; and
    (iv) An evacuation of an aircraft in which an emergency egress 
system is utilized.
    (b) An aircraft is overdue and is believed to have been involved in 
an accident.

[53 FR 36982, Sept. 23, 1988, as amended at 60 FR 40113, Aug. 7, 1995]