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National Transportation Safety Board

§ 830.5

NTSB headquarters is located at 490

L’Enfant Plaza SW., Washington, DC 20594.
Contact information for the NTSB’s regional
offices is available at

http://www.ntsb.gov. To

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an aircraft, such as the owner, lessee,
or bailee of an aircraft.

Public aircraft means an aircraft used

only for the United States Govern-
ment, or an aircraft owned and oper-
ated (except for commercial purposes)
or exclusively leased for at least 90
continuous days by a government other
than the United States Government,
including a State, the District of Co-
lumbia, a territory or possession of the
United States, or a political subdivi-
sion of that government. ‘‘Public air-
craft’’ does not include a government-
owned aircraft transporting property
for commercial purposes and does not
include a government-owned aircraft
transporting passengers other than:
transporting (for other than commer-
cial purposes) crewmembers or other
persons aboard the aircraft whose pres-
ence is required to perform, or is asso-
ciated with the performance of, a gov-
ernmental function such as fire-
fighting, search and rescue, law en-
forcement, aeronautical research, or
biological or geological resource man-
agement; or transporting (for other
than commercial purposes) persons
aboard the aircraft if the aircraft is op-
erated by the Armed Forces or an in-
telligence agency of the United States.
Notwithstanding any limitation relat-
ing to use of the aircraft for commer-
cial purposes, an aircraft shall be con-
sidered to be a public aircraft without
regard to whether it is operated by a
unit of government on behalf of an-
other unit of government pursuant to a
cost reimbursement agreement, if the
unit of government on whose behalf the
operation is conducted certifies to the
Administrator of the Federal Aviation
Administration that the operation was
necessary to respond to a significant
and imminent threat to life or property
(including natural resources) and that
no service by a private operator was
reasonably available to meet the
threat.

Serious injury means any injury

which: (1) Requires hospitalization for
more than 48 hours, commencing with-
in 7 days from the date of the injury
was received; (2) results in a fracture of
any bone (except simple fractures of
fingers, toes, or nose); (3) causes severe
hemorrhages, nerve, muscle, or tendon
damage; (4) involves any internal

organ; or (5) involves second- or third-
degree burns, or any burns affecting
more than 5 percent of the body sur-
face.

Substantial damage means damage or

failure which adversely affects the
structural strength, performance, or
flight characteristics of the aircraft,
and which would normally require
major repair or replacement of the af-
fected component. Engine failure or
damage limited to an engine if only
one engine fails or is damaged, bent
fairings or cowling, dented skin, small
punctured holes in the skin or fabric,
ground damage to rotor or propeller
blades, and damage to landing gear,
wheels, tires, flaps, engine accessories,
brakes, or wingtips are not considered
‘‘substantial damage’’ for the purpose
of this part.

Unmanned aircraft accident means an

occurrence associated with the oper-
ation of any public or civil unmanned
aircraft system that takes place be-
tween the time that the system is acti-
vated with the purpose of flight and
the time that the system is deactivated
at the conclusion of its mission, in
which:

(1) Any person suffers death or seri-

ous injury; or

(2) The aircraft holds an airworthi-

ness certificate and sustains substan-
tial damage.

[53 FR 36982, Sept. 23, 1988, as amended at 60
FR 40112, Aug. 7, 1995; 75 FR 51955, Aug. 24,
2010; 87 FR 42104, July 14, 2022]

Subpart B—Initial Notification of

Aircraft Accidents, Incidents,
and Overdue Aircraft

§ 830.5

Immediate notification.

The operator of any civil aircraft, or

any public aircraft not operated by the
Armed Forces or an intelligence agen-
cy of the United States, or any foreign
aircraft shall immediately, and by the
most expeditious means available, no-
tify the nearest National Transpor-
tation Safety Board (NTSB) office,

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§ 830.6

report an accident or incident, you may call
the NTSB Response Operations Center, at
844–373–9922 or 202–314–6290.

(a) An aircraft accident or any of the

following listed serious incidents
occur:

(1) Flight control system malfunc-

tion or failure;

(2) Inability of any required flight

crewmember to perform normal flight
duties as a result of injury or illness;

(3) Failure of any internal turbine en-

gine component that results in the es-
cape of debris other than out the ex-
haust path;

(4) In-flight fire;
(5) Aircraft collision 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):

(i) In-flight failure of electrical sys-

tems which requires the sustained use
of an emergency bus powered by a
back-up source such as a battery, aux-
iliary power unit, or air-driven gener-
ator to retain flight control or essen-
tial instruments;

(ii) In-flight failure of hydraulic sys-

tems that results in sustained reliance
on the sole remaining hydraulic or me-
chanical system for movement of flight
control surfaces;

(iii) Sustained loss of the power or

thrust produced by two or more en-
gines; and

(iv) An evacuation of an aircraft in

which an emergency egress system is
utilized.

(8) Release of all or a portion of a

propeller blade from an aircraft, ex-
cluding release caused solely by ground
contact;

(9) A complete loss of information,

excluding flickering, from more than 50
percent of an aircraft’s cockpit dis-
plays known as:

(i) Electronic Flight Instrument Sys-

tem (EFIS) displays;

(ii) Engine Indication and Crew

Alerting System (EICAS) displays;

(iii) Electronic Centralized Aircraft

Monitor (ECAM) displays; or

(iv) Other displays of this type, which

generally include a primary flight dis-
play (PFD), primary navigation display
(PND), and other integrated displays;

(10) Airborne Collision and Avoidance

System (ACAS) resolution advisories
issued when an aircraft is being oper-
ated on an instrument flight rules
flight plan and compliance with the ad-
visory is necessary to avert a substan-
tial risk of collision between two or
more aircraft.

(11) Damage to helicopter tail or

main rotor blades, including ground
damage, that requires major repair or
replacement of the blade(s);

(12) Any event in which an operator,

when operating an airplane as an air
carrier at a public-use airport on land:

(i) Lands or departs on a taxiway, in-

correct runway, or other area not de-
signed as a runway; or

(ii) Experiences a runway incursion

that requires the operator or the crew
of another aircraft or vehicle to take
immediate corrective action to avoid a
collision.

(b) An aircraft is overdue and is be-

lieved to have been involved in an acci-
dent.

[53 FR 36982, Sept. 23, 1988, as amended at 60
FR 40113, Aug. 7, 1995; 75 FR 927, Jan. 7, 2010;
75 FR 35330, June 22, 2010; 80 FR 77587, Dec.
15, 2015]

§ 830.6

Information to be given in noti-

fication.

The notification required in § 830.5

shall contain the following informa-
tion, if available:

(a) Type, nationality, and registra-

tion marks of the aircraft;

(b) Name of owner, and operator of

the aircraft;

of intended landing of the aircraft;

(f) Position of the aircraft with ref-

erence to some easily defined geo-
graphical point;

(g) Number of persons aboard, num-

ber killed, and number seriously in-
jured;

(h) Nature of the accident, the weath-

er and the extent of damage to the air-
craft, so far as is known; and