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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
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§ 121.584
such persons have been orally briefed
by the appropriate crewmember on—
(1) Smoking;
(2) The use of seat belts;
(3) The location and operation of
emergency exits;
(4) The use of oxygen and emergency
oxygen equipment; and
(5) For extended overwater oper-
ations, the location of life rafts, and
the location and operation of life pre-
servers including a demonstration of
the method of donning and inflating a
life preserver.
(d) Each certificate holder operating
an airplane carrying persons covered
by paragraph (a) of this section shall
incorporate procedures for the safe car-
riage of such persons into the certifi-
cate holder’s operations manual.
(e) The pilot in command may au-
thorize a person covered by paragraph
(a) of this section to be admitted to the
crew compartment of the airplane.
[Doc. No. 10580, 35 FR 14612, Sept. 18, 1970, as
amended by Amdt. 121–96, 37 FR 19608, Sept.
21, 1972; Amdt. 121–159, 45 FR 41594, June 19,
1980; Amdt. 121–232, 57 FR 48663, Oct. 27, 1992;
Amdt. 121–251, 60 FR 65935, Dec. 20, 1995;
Amdt. 121–253, 61 FR 2614, Jan. 26, 1996; Amdt.
121–298, 68 FR 41217, July 10, 2003; Amdt. 121–
357, 77 FR 403, Jan. 4, 2012; Amdt. 121–373, 80
FR 58586, Sept. 30, 2015]
§ 121.584 Requirement to view the
area outside the flightdeck door.
From the time the airplane moves in
order to initiate a flight segment
through the end of that flight segment,
no person may unlock or open the
flightdeck door unless:
(a) A person authorized to be on the
flightdeck uses an approved audio pro-
cedure and an approved visual device to
verify that:
(1) The area outside the flightdeck
door is secure, and;
(2) If someone outside the flightdeck
is seeking to have the flightdeck door
opened, that person is not under du-
ress, and;
(3) If the airplane is in flight, any in-
stalled physical secondary barrier
(IPSB) required by § 121.313(l) has been
deployed; and
(b) After the requirements of para-
graph (a) of this section have been sat-
isfactorily accomplished, the crew-
member in charge on the flightdeck au-
thorizes the door to be unlocked and
open.
[Amdt. 121–334, 72 FR 45635, Aug. 15, 2007, as
amended by Amdt. No. 121–389, 88 FR 41308,
June 26, 2023]
§ 121.585 Exit seating.
(a)(1) Each certificate holder shall
determine, to the extent necessary to
perform the applicable functions of
paragraph (d) of this section, the suit-
ability of each person it permits to oc-
cupy an exit seat, in accordance with
this section. For the purpose of this
section—
(i)
Exit seat
means—
(A) Each seat having direct access to
an exit; and,
(B) Each seat in a row of seats
through which passengers would have
to pass to gain access to an exit, from
the first seat inboard of the exit to the
first aisle inboard of the exit.
(ii) A passenger seat having ‘‘direct
access’’ means a seat from which a pas-
senger can proceed directly to the exit
without entering an aisle or passing
around an obstruction.
(2) Each certificate holder shall make
the passenger exit seating determina-
tions required by this paragraph in a
non-discriminatory manner consistent
with the requirements of this section,
by persons designated in the certificate
holder’s required operations manual.
(3) Each certificate holder shall des-
ignate the exit seats for each passenger
seating configuration in its fleet in ac-
cordance with the definitions in this
paragraph and submit those designa-
tions for approval as part of the proce-
dures required to be submitted for ap-
proval under paragraphs (n) and (p) of
this section.
(b) No certificate holder may seat a
person in a seat affected by this section
if the certificate holder determines
that it is likely that the person would
be unable to perform one or more of
the applicable functions listed in para-
graph (d) of this section because—
(1) The person lacks sufficient mobil-
ity, strength, or dexterity in both arms
and hands, and both legs:
(i) To reach upward, sideways, and
downward to the location of emergency
exit and exit-slide operating mecha-
nisms;