Definitions.

CFR · 2024-01-01 · US · Title 14

(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. (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 (

official document · source cfr-2024 · id 14:§ 243.3