[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 14, Volume 4]
[Revised as of January 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 14CFR243.3]

[Page 199]
 
                     TITLE 14--AERONAUTICS AND SPACE
 
   CHAPTER II--OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 
                         (AVIATION PROCEEDINGS)
 
PART 243--PASSENGER MANIFEST INFORMATION--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 243.3  Definitions.

    Air piracy means any seizure of or exercise of control over an 
aircraft, by force or violence or threat of force or violence, or by any 
other form of intimidation, and with wrongful intent.
    Aviation disaster means:
    (1) An occurrence associated with the operation of an aircraft that 
takes place between the time any passengers have boarded the aircraft 
with the intention of flight and the time all such persons have 
disembarked or have been removed from the aircraft, and in which any 
person suffers death or serious injury, and in which the death or injury 
was caused by a crash, fire, collision, sabotage or accident;
    (2) A missing aircraft; or
    (3) An act of air piracy.
    Contact means a person not on the covered flight or an entity that 
should be contacted in case of an aviation disaster. The contact need 
not have any particular relationship to a passenger.
    Covered airline means:
    (1) certificated air carriers, and
    (2) foreign air carriers, except those that hold Department of 
Transportation authority to conduct operations in foreign air 
transportation using only small aircraft (i.e., aircraft designed to 
have a maximum passenger capacity of not more than 60 seats or a maximum 
payload capacity of not more than 18,000 pounds).
    Covered flight segment means a passenger-carrying flight segment 
operating to or from the United States (i.e., the flight segment where 
the last point of departure or the first point of arrival is in the 
United States). A covered flight segment does not include a flight 
segment in which both the point of departure and point of arrival are in 
the United States.
    Full name means the given name, middle initial or middle name, if 
any, and family name or surname as provided by the passenger.
    Passenger means every person aboard a covered flight segment 
regardless of whether he or she paid for the transportation, had a 
reservation, or occupied a seat, except the crew. For the purposes of 
this part, passenger includes, but is not limited to, a revenue and non-
revenue passenger, a person holding a confirmed reservation, a standby 
or walkup, a person rerouted from another flight or airline, an infant 
held upon a person's lap and a person occupying a jump seat. Airline 
personnel who are on board but not working on that particular flight 
segment would be considered passengers for the purpose of this part.
    United States means the States comprising the United States of 
America, the District of Columbia, and the territories and possessions 
of the United States, including the territorial sea and the overlying 
airspace.
    U.S. citizen means United States nationals as defined in 8 U.S.C. 
1101(a)(22).