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§ 121.583 

(c) For any airplane type certificated 

before December 20, 1995, for not more 
than 30 passengers that does not have 
an observer seat on the flightdeck, the 
certificate holder must provide a for-
ward passenger seat with headset or 
speaker for occupancy by the Adminis-
trator while conducting en route in-
spections. 

[Doc. No. 6258, 29 FR 19219, Dec. 31, 1964, as 
amended by Amdt. 121–144, 43 FR 22648, May 
25, 1978; Amdt. 121–251, 60 FR 65935, Dec. 20, 
1995; Amdt. 121–288, 67 FR 2128, Jan. 15, 2002] 

§ 121.582 Means to discreetly notify a 

flightcrew. 

Except for all-cargo operations as de-

fined in § 110.2 of this chapter, after Oc-
tober 15, 2007, for all passenger car-
rying airplanes that require a lockable 
flightdeck door in accordance with 
§ 121.313(f), the certificate holder must 
have an approved means by which the 
cabin crew can discreetly notify the 
flightcrew in the event of suspicious 
activity or security breaches in the 
cabin. 

[Doc. No. FAA–2005–22449, 72 FR 45635, Aug. 
15, 2007, as amended by Amdt. 121–353, 76 FR 
7488, Feb. 10, 2011] 

§ 121.583 Carriage of persons without 

compliance with the passenger-car-
rying requirements of this part. 

(a) When authorized by the certifi-

cate holder, the following persons, but 
no others, may be carried aboard an 
airplane without complying with the 
passenger-carrying airplane require-
ments in §§ 121.309(f), 121.310, 121.391, 
121.571, and 121.587; the passenger-car-
rying operation requirements in part 
117 and §§ 121.157(c) and 121.291; the re-
quirements pertaining to passengers in 
§§ 121.285, 121.313(f), 121.317, 121.547, and 
121.573; and the information disclosure 
requirements in § 121.311(k): 

(1) A crewmember. 
(2) A company employee. 
(3) An FAA air carrier inspector, a 

DOD commercial air carrier evaluator, 
or an authorized representative of the 
National Transportation Safety Board, 
who is performing official duties. 

(4) A person necessary for— 
(i) The safety of the flight; 
(ii) The safe handling of animals; 

(iii) The safe handling of hazardous 

materials whose carriage is governed 
by regulations in 49 CFR part 175; 

(iv) The security of valuable or con-

fidential cargo; 

(v) The preservation of fragile or per-

ishable cargo; 

(vi) Experiments on, or testing of, 

cargo containers or cargo handling de-
vices; 

(vii) The operation of special equip-

ment for loading or unloading cargo; 
and 

(viii) The loading or unloading of 

outsize cargo. 

(5) A person described in paragraph 

(a)(4) of this section, when traveling to 
or from his assignment. 

(6) A person performing duty as an 

honor guard accompanying a shipment 
made by or under the authority of the 
United States. 

(7) A military courier, military route 

supervisor, military cargo contract co-
ordinator, or a flight crewmember of 
another military cargo contract air 
carrier or commercial operator, carried 
by a military cargo contract air carrier 
or commercial operator in operations 
under a military cargo contract, if that 
carriage is specifically authorized by 
the appropriate armed forces. 

(8) A dependent of an employee of the 

certificate holder when traveling with 
the employee on company business to 
or from outlying stations not served by 
adequate regular passenger flights. 

(b) No certificate holder may operate 

an airplane carrying a person covered 
by paragraph (a) of this section un-
less— 

(1) Each person has unobstructed ac-

cess from his seat to the pilot compart-
ment or to a regular or emergency exit; 

(2) The pilot in command has a 

means of notifying each person when 
smoking is prohibited and when safety 
belts must be fastened; and 

(3) The airplane has an approved seat 

with an approved safety belt for each 
person. The seat must be located so 
that the occupant is not in any posi-
tion to interfere with the flight crew-
members performing their duties. 

(c) Before each takeoff, each certifi-

cate holder operating an airplane car-
rying persons covered by paragraph (a) 
of this section shall ensure that all