AIRPLANE SAFETY EQUIPMENT

ICAO

Annex 6 to the Convention on International Civil Aviation;

Operation of Aircraft

Part I International Commercial Air Transport

Aeroplanes

USA

14 CFR Part 25

Airworthiness Standards: Transport Category Airplanes

EU (implemente in Ukraine)

14 CFR Part 121

Operating requirements: domestic, flag, and supplemental operations

14 CFR Part 125

Certification and operations: airplanes having a seating capacity of 20 or more passengers or a maximum payload capacity of 6,000 pounds or more; and rules governing persons on board such aircraft

Technical Standard Orders

Certification Specifications CS-25 Large Aeroplanes

Commission Regulation (EU) No 965/2012

European Technical Standard Orders (ETSO)

Accessibility

Stowage provisions

Liferafts

directly accessible;
location is obvious

protect from inadvertent damage

enough rafts for the maximum number of occupants

stowed near exits

automatically or remotely released

rapid detachment and removal

Long-range signalling device

Life-preserver stowage provisions

Life line stowage provisions

CS 25.1415 Ditching equipment

must accommodate all occupants if loss of one raft of the largest rated capacity

trailing and static line

approved flotation means for each occupant (aeroplanes not certificated for ditching)

attached stored adjacent to each liferaft

survival type emergency locator transmitter/1 raft

§ 121.339 Emergency equipment for extended over-water operations

without having on the airplane the following equipment no person may operate an airplane

enough life rafts of a rated capacity and buoyancy

min - one pyrotechnic signaling device for each life raft

approved survival type emergency locator transmitter

life rafts, life preservers, and survival type emergency locator transmitter - easily accessible

survival kit attached to each required life raft.

life preserver equipped with an approved survivor locator light, for each occupant

§121.340 Emergency flotation means

equipped with life preservers/approved flotation means for each occupant (within easy reach of occupant and readily removable from the airplane)

operation of an airplane over water without the life preservers/flotation means (if water is not of such size and depth that life preservers or flotation means would be required for the survival in the event the flight terminates in that water.

Life Preservers

Type I
Inflatable

Type II
Non-inflatable

Materials

Non-metallic

Coated fabrics

strength

not support fungal growth

manufactured not more than 18 months prior to the date of delivery

adhesion

permeability

seam strength and adhesives

cemented seams

heat sealed seams

seam tape

Materials Other Than Coated Fabrics

webbing

thread

flammability

molded nonmetallic fittings

–51 to +71°C

size E nylon or equivalent min tensile strength - 38 N

min tensile strength - 1023 N

in compliance with CS-25.853(a) [Appendix F, Part I (a)(1)(iv)]

Metallic Parts

corrosion-resistant materia/suitably protected against corrosion

Design and Construction

Reversibility

Compartmentation, Type I Life Preserver

Protection Against Abrasion and Chafing, Type I Life Preserver

Inflation, Type I Life Preserver

oral inflation

oral inflation valve

manual mechanical inflation

Gas Reservoir

Pull Cord Assembly

Deflation, Type I Life Preserver

Functional Temperature Range

Overpressure Protection, Type I Life Preserver

Buoyancy

Adult, Adult-Child, and Child Life Preservers

Infant-Small Child Life Preservers

Tether Infant-Small Child Category Life Preserver

Life Preserver Retention and Donning Characteristics

Comfort, Fit, and Adaptability

Survivor Locator Light

Life Preserver Package

Color

Marking

pictorial resentation

orientation of instructions

readability in emergency lighting conditions

date of manufacture

size category

Life Vest

Liferafts (Reversible and Nonreversible)

Water-activated Batteries

for liferaft

for lifejackets

COSPAS-SARSAT Satellite System

406-MHz radiobeacons

ship security alert devices (SSAD)

polar-orbiting satellites in low Earth orbit

ground segment consisting of satellite receiving stations -Local User Terminals (LUTs)

Emergency Locator Transmitter