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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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