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§ 121.312
equipped at each flight deck station
with a combined safety belt and shoul-
der harness that meets the applicable
requirements specified in § 25.785 of this
chapter, effective March 6, 1980, except
that—
(1) Shoulder harnesses and combined
safety belt and shoulder harnesses that
were approved and installed before
March 6, 1980, may continue to be used;
and
(2) Safety belt and shoulder harness
restraint systems may be designed to
the inertia load factors established
under the certification basis of the air-
plane.
(g) Each flight attendant must have a
seat for takeoff and landing in the pas-
senger compartment that meets the re-
quirements of § 25.785 of this chapter,
effective March 6, 1980, except that—
(1) Combined safety belt and shoulder
harnesses that were approved and in-
stalled before March, 6, 1980, may con-
tinue to be used; and
(2) Safety belt and shoulder harness
restraint systems may be designed to
the inertia load factors established
under the certification basis of the air-
plane.
(3) The requirements of § 25.785(h) do
not apply to passenger seats occupied
by flight attendants not required by
§ 121.391.
(h) Each occupant of a seat equipped
with a shoulder harness or with a com-
bined safety belt and shoulder harness
must have the shoulder harness or
combined safety belt and shoulder har-
ness properly secured about that occu-
pant during takeoff and landing, except
that a shoulder harness that is not
combined with a safety belt may be un-
fastened if the occupant cannot per-
form the required duties with the
shoulder harness fastened.
(i) At each unoccupied seat, the safe-
ty belt and shoulder harness, if in-
stalled, must be secured so as not to
interfere with crewmembers in the per-
formance of their duties or with the
rapid egress of occupants in an emer-
gency.
(j) After October 27, 2009, no person
may operate a transport category air-
plane type certificated after January 1,
1958 and manufactured on or after Oc-
tober 27, 2009 in passenger-carrying op-
erations under this part unless all pas-
senger and flight attendant seats on
the airplane meet the requirements of
§ 25.562 in effect on or after June 16,
1988.
(k)
Seat dimension disclosure.
(1) Each
air carrier that conducts operations
under this part and that has a Web site
must make available on its Web site
the width of the narrowest and widest
passenger seats in each class of service
for each airplane make, model and se-
ries operated by that air carrier in pas-
senger-carrying operations.
(2) For purposes of paragraph (k)(1) of
this section, the width of a passenger
seat means the distance between the
inside of the armrests for that seat.
[Doc. No. 7522, 32 FR 13267, Sept. 20, 1967]
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EDERAL
R
EGISTER
ci-
tations affecting § 121.311, see the List of CFR
Sections Affected, which appears in the
Finding Aids section of the printed volume
and at
www.govinfo.gov.
§ 121.312
Materials for compartment
interiors.
(a)
All interior materials; transport cat-
egory airplanes and nontransport cat-
egory airplanes type certificated before
January 1, 1965.
Except for the mate-
rials covered by paragraph (b) of this
section, all materials in each compart-
ment of a transport category airplane,
or a nontransport category airplane
type certificated before January 1, 1965,
used by the crewmembers and pas-
sengers, must meet the requirements of
§ 25.853 of this chapter in effect as fol-
lows, or later amendment thereto:
(1)
Airplane with passenger seating ca-
pacity of 20 or more
—(i)
Manufactured
after August 19, 1988, but prior to August
20, 1990.
Except as provided in para-
graph (a)(3)(ii) of this section, each air-
plane with a passenger capacity of 20 or
more and manufactured after August
19, 1988, but prior to August 20, 1990,
must comply with the heat release rate
testing provisions of § 25.853(d) in effect
March 6, 1995 (formerly § 25.853(a–1) in
effect on August 20, 1986) (see App. L of
this part), except that the total heat
release over the first 2 minutes of sam-
ple exposure must not exceed 100 kilo-
watt minutes per square meter and the
peak heat release rate must not exceed
100 kilowatts per square meter.
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