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Federal Aviation Administration, DOT
§ 25.1419
S
AFETY
E
QUIPMENT
§ 25.1411
General.
(a)
Accessibility.
Required safety
equipment to be used by the crew in an
emergency must be readily accessible.
(b)
Stowage provisions. Stowage provi-
sions for required emergency equip-
ment must be furnished and must—
(1) Be arranged so that the equip-
ment is directly accessible and its loca-
tion is obvious; and
(2) Protect the safety equipment
from inadvertent damage.
(c)
Emergency exit descent device. The
stowage provisions for the emergency
exit descent devices required by
§ 25.810(a) must be at each exit for
which they are intended.
(d)
Liferafts. (1) The stowage provi-
sions for the liferafts described in
§ 25.1415 must accommodate enough
rafts for the maximum number of occu-
pants for which certification for ditch-
ing is requested.
(2) Liferafts must be stowed near
exits through which the rafts can be
launched during an unplanned ditch-
ing.
(3) Rafts automatically or remotely
released outside the airplane must be
attached to the airplane by means of
the static line prescribed in § 25.1415.
(4) The stowage provisions for each
portable liferaft must allow rapid de-
tachment and removal of the raft for
use at other than the intended exits.
(e)
Long-range signaling device. The
stowage provisions for the long-range
signaling device required by § 25.1415
must be near an exit available during
an unplanned ditching.
(f)
Life preserver stowage provisions.
The stowage provisions for life pre-
servers described in § 25.1415 must ac-
commodate one life preserver for each
occupant for which certification for
ditching is requested. Each life pre-
server must be within easy reach of
each seated occupant.
(g)
Life line stowage provisions. If cer-
tification for ditching under § 25.801 is
requested, there must be provisions to
store life lines. These provisions
must—
(1) Allow one life line to be attached
to each side of the fuselage; and
(2) Be arranged to allow the life lines
to be used to enable the occupants to
stay on the wing after ditching.
[Doc. No. 5066, 29 FR 18291, Dec. 24, 1964, as
amended by Amdt. 25–32, 37 FR 3972, Feb. 24,
1972; Amdt. 25–46, 43 FR 50598, Oct. 30, 1978;
Amdt. 25–53, 45 FR 41593, June 19, 1980; Amdt.
25–70, 54 FR 43925, Oct. 27, 1989; Amdt. 25–79,
58 FR 45229, Aug. 26, 1993; Amdt. 25–116, 69 FR
62789, Oct. 27, 2004]
§ 25.1415
Ditching equipment.
(a) Ditching equipment used in air-
planes to be certificated for ditching
under § 25.801, and required by the oper-
ating rules of this chapter, must meet
the requirements of this section.
(b) Each liferaft and each life pre-
server must be approved. In addition—
(1) Unless excess rafts of enough ca-
pacity are provided, the buoyancy and
seating capacity beyond the rated ca-
pacity of the rafts must accommodate
all occupants of the airplane in the
event of a loss of one raft of the largest
rated capacity; and
(2) Each raft must have a trailing
line, and must have a static line de-
signed to hold the raft near the air-
plane but to release it if the airplane
becomes totally submerged.
(c) Approved survival equipment
must be attached to each liferaft.
(d) There must be an approved sur-
vival type emergency locator trans-
mitter for use in one life raft.
(e) For airplanes not certificated for
ditching under § 25.801 and not having
approved life preservers, there must be
an approved flotation means for each
occupant. This means must be within
easy reach of each seated occupant and
must be readily removable from the
airplane.
[Doc. No. 5066, 29 FR 18291, Dec. 24, 1964, as
amended by Amdt. 25–29, 36 FR 18722, Sept.
21, 1971; Amdt. 25–50, 45 FR 38348, June 9, 1980;
Amdt. 25–72, 55 FR 29785, July 20, 1990; Amdt.
25–82, 59 FR 32057, June 21, 1994]
§ 25.1419
Ice protection.
If the applicant seeks certification
for flight in icing conditions, the air-
plane must be able to safely operate in
the continuous maximum and inter-
mittent maximum icing conditions of
appendix C. To establish this—
(a) An analysis must be performed to
establish that the ice protection for
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