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49 CFR Ch. VIII (10–1–18 Edition) 

§ 826.40 

§ 826.40

Payment of award. 

Within 5 days of the Board’s service 

of a final decision granting an award of 
fees and expenses to an applicant, the 
Administrator shall transmit to the 
applicant instructions explaining how 
the applicant may obtain the award. 
These instructions may require, but 
are not limited to, the submission of 
the following information to the Ad-
ministrator: a statement that the ap-
plicant will not seek review of the deci-
sion in the United States courts, bank 
routing numbers to which the Adminis-
trator may transmit payment, and the 
applicant’s tax identification or Social 
Security number. The Administrator 
will pay the applicant the amount 
awarded within 60 days of receiving the 
necessary information from the appli-
cant, unless judicial review of the 
award or of the underlying decision of 
the adversary adjudication has been 
sought by the applicant or any other 
party to the proceeding. 

[77 FR 63253, Oct. 16, 2012] 

PART 830—NOTIFICATION AND RE-

PORTING OF AIRCRAFT ACCI-
DENTS OR INCIDENTS AND 
OVERDUE AIRCRAFT, AND PRES-
ERVATION OF AIRCRAFT WRECK-
AGE, MAIL, CARGO, AND 
RECORDS 

Subpart A—General 

Sec. 
830.1

Applicability. 

830.2

Definitions. 

Subpart B—Initial Notification of Aircraft 

Accidents, Incidents, and Overdue Aircraft 

830.5

Immediate notification. 

830.6

Information to be given in notifica-

tion. 

Subpart C—Preservation of Aircraft 

Wreckage, Mail, Cargo, and Records 

830.10

Preservation of aircraft wreckage, 

mail, cargo, and records. 

Subpart D—Reporting of Aircraft Accidents, 

Incidents, and Overdue Aircraft 

830.15

Reports and statements to be filed. 

A

UTHORITY

: 49 U.S.C. 1101–1155; Pub. L. 85– 

726, 72 Stat. 731 (codified as amended at 49 
U.S.C. 40101). 

S

OURCE

: 53 FR 36982, Sept. 23, 1988, unless 

otherwise noted. 

Subpart A—General 

§ 830.1

Applicability. 

This part contains rules pertaining 

to: 

(a) Initial notification and later re-

porting of aircraft incidents and acci-
dents and certain other occurrences in 
the operation of aircraft, wherever 
they occur, when they involve civil air-
craft of the United States; when they 
involve certain public aircraft, as spec-
ified in this part, wherever they occur; 
and when they involve foreign civil air-
craft where the events occur in the 
United States, its territories, or its 
possessions. 

(b) Preservation of aircraft wreckage, 

mail, cargo, and records involving all 
civil and certain public aircraft acci-
dents, as specified in this part, in the 
United States and its territories or 
possessions. 

[60 FR 40112, Aug. 7, 1995] 

§ 830.2

Definitions. 

As used in this part the following 

words or phrases are defined as follows: 

Aircraft accident 

means an occurrence 

associated with the operation of an air-
craft which takes place between the 
time any person boards the aircraft 
with the intention of flight and all 
such persons have disembarked, and in 
which any person suffers death or seri-
ous injury, or in which the aircraft re-
ceives substantial damage. For pur-
poses of this part, the definition of 
‘‘aircraft accident’’ includes ‘‘un-
manned aircraft accident,’’ as defined 
herein. 

Civil aircraft 

means any aircraft other 

than a public aircraft. 

Fatal injury 

means any injury which 

results in death within 30 days of the 
accident. 

Incident 

means an occurrence other 

than an accident, associated with the 
operation of an aircraft, which affects 
or could affect the safety of operations. 

Operator 

means any person who 

causes or authorizes the operation of 

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