[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: 14CFR243.9]

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                     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. 243.9  Procedures for collecting and maintaining the information.

    Covered airlines may use any method or procedure to collect, store 
and transmit the required information, subject to the following 
conditions:
    (a) Information on individual passengers shall be collected before 
each passenger boards the aircraft on a covered flight segment.

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    (b) The information shall be kept until all passengers have 
disembarked from the covered flight segment.
    (c) The contact information collected pursuant to section 
243.7(a)(2) of this part shall be kept confidential and released only to 
the U.S. Department of State, the National Transportation Safety Board 
(upon NTSB's request), and the U.S. Department of Transportation 
pursuant to oversight of this part. This paragraph does not preempt 
other governments or governmental agencies that have an independent, 
legal right to obtain this information.
    (d) The contact information collected pursuant to section 
243.7(a)(2) of this part shall only be used by covered airlines for 
notification of family members or listed contacts following an aviation 
disaster. The information shall not be used for commercial or marketing 
purposes.