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14 CFR Ch. I (1–1–19 Edition) 

§ 121.309 

(3) Must be clearly identified and 

clearly marked to indicate its method 
of operation; and 

(4) When carried in a compartment or 

container, must be carried in a com-
partment or container marked as to 
contents and the compartment or con-
tainer, or the item itself, must be 
marked as to date of last inspection. 

(c) 

Hand fire extinguishers for crew, 

passenger, cargo, and galley compart-
ments. 

Hand fire extinguishers of an ap-

proved type must be provided for use in 
crew, passenger, cargo, and galley com-
partments in accordance with the fol-
lowing: 

(1) The type and quantity of extin-

guishing agent must be suitable for the 
kinds of fires likely to occur in the 
compartment where the extinguisher is 
intended to be used and, for passenger 
compartments, must be designed to 
minimize the hazard of toxic gas con-
centrations. 

(2) 

Cargo compartments. 

At least one 

hand fire extinguisher must be conven-
iently located for use in each class E 
cargo compartment that is accessible 
to crewmembers during flight. 

(3) 

Galley compartments. 

At least one 

hand fire extinguisher must be conven-
iently located for use in each galley lo-
cated in a compartment other than a 
passenger, cargo, or crew compart-
ment. 

(4) 

Flightcrew compartment. 

At least 

one hand fire extinguisher must be con-
veniently located on the flight deck for 
use by the flightcrew. 

(5) 

Passenger compartments. 

Hand fire 

extinguishers for use in passenger com-
partments must be conveniently lo-
cated and, when two or more are re-
quired, uniformly distributed through-
out each compartment. Hand fire ex-
tinguishers shall be provided in pas-
senger compartments as follows: 

(i) For airplanes having passenger 

seats accommodating more than 6 but 
fewer than 31 passengers, at least one. 

(ii) For airplanes having passenger 

seats accommodating more than 30 but 
fewer than 61 passengers, at least two. 

(iii) For airplanes having passenger 

seats accommodating more than 60 pas-
sengers, there must be at least the fol-
lowing number of hand fire extin-
guishers: 

M

INIMUM

N

UMBER OF

H

AND

F

IRE

 

E

XTINGUISHERS

 

Passenger seating accommodations: 

61 through 200 .................................

3 

201 through 300 ...............................

4 

301 through 400 ...............................

5 

401 through 500 ...............................

6 

501 through 600 ...............................

7 

601 or more .....................................

8 

(6) Notwithstanding the requirement 

for uniform distribution of hand fire 
extinguishers as prescribed in para-
graph (c)(5) of this section, for those 
cases where a galley is located in a pas-
senger compartment, at least one hand 
fire extinguisher must be conveniently 
located and easily accessible for use in 
the galley. 

(7) At least two of the required hand 

fire extinguisher installed in pas-
senger-carrying airplanes must contain 
Halon 1211 
(bromochlorofluoromethane) or equiva-
lent as the extinguishing agent. At 
least one hand fire extinguisher in the 
passenger compartment must contain 
Halon 1211 or equivalent. 

(d) [Reserved] 
(e) 

Crash ax. 

Except for nontransport 

category airplanes type certificated 
after December 31, 1964, each airplane 
must be equipped with a crash ax. 

(f) 

Megaphones. 

Each passenger-car-

rying airplane must have a portable 
battery-powered megaphone or mega-
phones readily accessible to the crew-
members assigned to direct emergency 
evacuation, installed as follows: 

(1) One megaphone on each airplane 

with a seating capacity of more than 60 
and less than 100 passengers, at the 
most rearward location in the pas-
senger cabin where it would be readily 
accessible to a normal flight attendant 
seat. However, the Administrator may 
grant a deviation from the require-
ments of this subparagraph if he finds 
that a different location would be more 
useful for evacuation of persons during 
an emergency. 

(2) Two megaphones in the passenger 

cabin on each airplane with a seating 
capacity of more than 99 passengers, 
one installed at the forward end and 
the other at the most rearward loca-
tion where it would be readily acces-
sible to a normal flight attendant seat. 

[Doc. No. 6258, 29 FR 19205, Dec. 31, 1964] 

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