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§ 121.628 

the authorized ETOPS maximum diver-
sion time. In selecting these ETOPS 
Alternate Airports, the certificate 
holder must consider all adequate air-
ports within the authorized ETOPS di-
version time for the flight that meet 
the standards of this part. 

(b) No person may list an airport as 

an ETOPS Alternate Airport in a dis-
patch or flight release unless, when it 
might be used (from the earliest to the 
latest possible landing time)— 

(1) The appropriate weather reports 

or forecasts, or any combination there-
of, indicate that the weather condi-
tions will be at or above the ETOPS Al-
ternate Airport minima specified in 
the certificate holder’s operations 
specifications; and 

(2) The field condition reports indi-

cate that a safe landing can be made. 

(c) Once a flight is en route, the 

weather conditions at each ETOPS Al-
ternate Airport must meet the require-
ments of § 121.631 (c). 

(d) No person may list an airport as 

an ETOPS Alternate Airport in the dis-
patch or flight release unless that air-
port meets the public protection re-
quirements of § 121.97(b)(1)(ii). 

[Doc. No. FAA–2002–6717, 72 FR 1881, Jan. 16, 
2007] 

§ 121.625

Alternate Airport weather 

minima. 

Except as provided in § 121.624 for 

ETOPS Alternate Airports, no person 
may list an airport as an alternate in 
the dispatch or flight release unless the 
appropriate weather reports or fore-
casts, or any combination thereof, indi-
cate that the weather conditions will 
be at or above the alternate weather 
minima specified in the certificate 
holder’s operations specifications for 
that airport when the flight arrives. 

[Doc. No. FAA–2002–6717, 72 FR 1881, Jan. 16, 
2007] 

§ 121.627

Continuing flight in unsafe 

conditions. 

(a) No pilot in command may allow a 

flight to continue toward any airport 
to which it has been dispatched or re-
leased if, in the opinion of the pilot in 
command or dispatcher (domestic and 
flag operations only), the flight cannot 
be completed safely; unless, in the 
opinion of the pilot in command, there 

is no safer procedure. In that event, 
continuation toward that airport is an 
emergency situation as set forth in 
§ 121.557. 

(b) If any instrument or item of 

equipment required under this chapter 
for the particular operation becomes 
inoperative en route, the pilot in com-
mand shall comply with the approved 
procedures for such an occurrence as 
specified in the certificate holder’s 
manual. 

[Doc. No. 6258, 29 FR 1922, Dec. 31, 1964, as 
amended by Amdt. 121–222, 56 FR 12310, Mar. 
22, 1991; Amdt. 121–253, 61 FR 2615, Jan. 26, 
1996] 

§ 121.628

Inoperable instruments and 

equipment. 

(a) No person may take off an air-

plane with inoperable instruments or 
equipment installed unless the fol-
lowing conditions are met: 

(1) An approved Minimum Equipment 

List exists for that airplane. 

(2) The responsible Flight Standards 

office has issued the certificate holder 
operations specifications authorizing 
operations in accordance with an ap-
proved Minimum Equipment List. The 
flight crew shall have direct access at 
all times prior to flight to all of the in-
formation contained in the approved 
Minimum Equipment List through 
printed or other means approved by the 
Administrator in the certificate hold-
ers operations specifications. An ap-
proved Minimum Equipment List, as 
authorized by the operations specifica-
tions, constitutes an approved change 
to the type design without requiring 
recertification. 

(3) The approved Minimum Equip-

ment List must: 

(i) Be prepared in accordance with 

the limitations specified in paragraph 
(b) of this section. 

(ii) Provide for the operation of the 

airplane with certain instruments and 
equipment in an inoperable condition. 

(4) Records identifying the inoperable 

instruments and equipment and the in-
formation required by paragraph 
(a)(3)(ii) of this section must be avail-
able to the pilot. 

(5) The airplane is operated under all 

applicable conditions and limitations 
contained in the Minimum Equipment 
List and the operations specifications 

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