[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: 14CFR243.9]



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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.

    (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.