[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 14, Volume 4]

[Revised as of January 1, 2006]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 14CFR243.3]



[Page 192]

 

                     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).