Five Reportable Incidents Added To Notification Requirements

The NTSB is amending its regulations concerning notification
and reporting requirements regarding aircraft accidents or
incidents. In particular, the NTSB is adding regulations to require
operators to report certain incidents to the NTSB. The NTSB is also
amending existing regulations to provide clarity and ensure that
the appropriate means for notifying the NTSB of a reportable
incident is listed correctly in the regulation.

On October 7, 2008, the NTSB published an NPRM titled
“Notification and Reporting of Aircraft Accidents or Incidents and
Overdue Aircraft, and preservation of Aircraft Wreckage, Mail,
Cargo, and Records” in the Federal Register. This NPRM proposed,
and the final rule codifies the addition of five reportable
incidents, the reporting of which the NTSB believes will improve
aviation safety.

The operator of any civil aircraft, or any public aircraft not
operated by the Armed Forces or an intelligence agency of the
United States, or any foreign aircraft shall immediately, and by
the most expeditious means available, notify the nearest National
Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) office when an aircraft accident
or any of the following listed serious incidents occur:

  • Failure of any internal turbine engine component that results
    in the escape of debris other than out the exhaust path.
  • In-flight fire.
  • Aircraft collision in flight.
  • Release of all or a portion of a propeller blade from an
    aircraft, excluding release caused solely by ground contact.
  • A complete loss of information, excluding flickering, from more
    than 50 percent of an aircraft’s cockpit displays known as
    Electronic Flight Instrument System (EFIS) displays, Engine
    Indication and Crew Alerting system (EICAS) displays, Electronic
    Centralized Aircraft Monitor (ECAM) displays, or other displays of
    this type, which generally include a primary flight display (PFD),
    primary navigation display (PND), and other integrated
    displays.
  • Airborne Collision and Avoidance System (ACAS) resolution
    advisories issued either when an aircraft is being operated on an
    instrument flight rules flight plan and compliance with the
    advisory is necessary to avert a substantial risk of collision
    between two or more aircraft, or to an aircraft operating in class
    A airspace.
  • Damage to helicopter tail or main rotor blades, including
    ground damage, that requires major repair or replacement of the
    blade(s).
  • Any event in which an aircraft operated by an air carrier lands
    or departs on a taxiway, incorrect runway, or other area not
    designed as a runway, or experiences a runway incursion that
    requires the operator or the crew of another aircraft or vehicle to
    take immediate corrective
  • action to avoid a collision.

The final rule was published in the Federal Register January
7th, and the revisions and additions published in this final rule
become effective March 8, 2010.

www.ntsb.gov
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