Emergency exit arrangement.

CFR · 2024-01-01 · US · Title 14

(a) Each emergency exit must consist of a movable door or hatch in the external walls of the fuselage and must provide an unobstructed opening to the outside. (b) Each emergency exit must be openable from the inside and from the outside. (c) The means of opening each emergency exit must be simple and obvious and may not require exceptional effort. (d) There must be means for locking each emergency exit and for preventing opening in flight inadvertently or as a result of mechanical failure. (e) There must be means to minimize the probability of the jamming of any emergency exit in a minor crash landing as a result of fuselage deformation under the ultimate inertial forces in § 29.783(d). (f) Except as provided in paragraph (h) of this section, each land-based rotorcraft emergency exit must have an approved slide as stated in paragraph (g) of this section, or its equivalent, to assist occupants in descending to the ground from each floor level exit and an approved rope, or its equivalent, for all other exits, if the exit threshold is more that 6 feet above the ground— (1) With the rotorcraft on the ground and with the landing gear extended; (2) With one or more legs or part of the landing gear collapsed, broken, or not extended; and (3) With the rotorcraft resting on its side, if required by § 29.803(d). (g) The slide for each passenger emergency exit must be a self-supporting slide or equivalent, and must be designed to meet the following requirements: (1) It must be automatic

official document · source cfr-2024 · id 14:§ 29.809