Document ID: FAA-1999-6482-0037
Agency: faa
Document Type: Rule
Title: Revisions to Digital Flight Data Recorder Regulations for Boeing 737 Airplanes and for All Part 125 Airplanes
Posted Date: 2009-07-09T04:00Z

[Federal Register: July 9, 2009 (Volume 74, Number 130)]
[Rules and Regulations]               
[Page 32804]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Aviation Administration

14 CFR Part 121

[Docket No. FAA-1999-6482; Amendment No. 121-346]
RIN 2120-AG87

 
Revisions to Digital Flight Data Recorder Regulations for Boeing 
737 Airplanes and for All Part 125 Airplanes

AGENCY: Federal Aviation Administration, DOT.

ACTION: Final rule; correction.

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SUMMARY: The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is amending a final 
rule published in the Federal Register on December 2, 2008. That final 
rule amended the regulations governing flight data recorders to 
increase the number of digital flight data recorder parameters for all 
Boeing 737 series airplanes manufactured after August 18, 2000. The 
rule also adopts a prohibition on deviations from flight recorder 
requirements for all airplanes operated under part 125. In our changes 
to part 125, the FAA incorrectly referenced the appendix containing 
airplane flight recorder specifications as appendix M when it is 
actually appendix E.

DATES: Effective Date: These amendments become effective July 9, 2009.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For technical questions contact: Brian 
A. Verna, Avionics Systems Branch, Aircraft Certification Service, AIR-
130, Federal Aviation Administration, 470 L'Enfant Plaza, Suite 4100, 
Washington, DC 20024; telephone (202) 385-4643; facsimile (202) 385-
4651; e-mail brian.verna@faa.gov. For legal questions contact: Karen L. 
Petronis, Regulations Division, Office of the Chief Counsel, Federal 
Aviation Administration, 800 Independence, Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 
20591; telephone (202) 267-3073; facsimile (202) 267-3073; e-mail 
karen.petronis@faa.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Federal Aviation Administration 
published a final rule entitled ``Revisions to Digital Flight Data 
Recorder Regulations for Boeing 737 Airplanes and for All Part 125 
Airplanes'' in the Federal Register on December 2, 2008 (73 FR 73171). 
That final rule amended the regulations governing flight data recorders 
to increase the number of digital flight data recorder parameters for 
all Boeing 737 series airplanes manufactured after August 18, 2000. The 
rule also adopted a prohibition on deviations from flight recorder 
requirements for all airplanes operated under part 125.
    Following publication of the final rule, an individual contacted us 
noting that the amended language in Sec.  125.226(f)(1) references 
``appendix M to this part'' when the correct appendix is appendix E. 
Upon reviewing our other changes to part 125, we noted the same 
incorrect reference in the amended language of Sec.  125.226(n).
    This document makes the appropriate amendatory changes to 
Sec. Sec.  125.226(f)(1) and 125.226(n) to correctly reference appendix 
E to part 125.

Correcting Amendment

    This correcting amendment will clarify the references to appendix E 
to part 125 in Sec. Sec.  125.226(f)(1) and 125.226(n).

List of Subjects in 14 CFR Part 125

    Aircraft, Aviation safety.

Correction

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In consideration of the foregoing, the Federal Aviation Administration 
amends part 125 of Title 14, Code of Regulations, as follows:

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

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1. The authority citation for part 125 continues to read as follows:

    Authority: 49 U.S.C. 106(g), 40113, 44701-44702, 44705, 44710-
44711, 44713, 44716-44717, 44722.

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2. Amend Sec.  125.226 by revising paragraphs (f)(1) and (n) to read as 
follows:

Sec.  125.226  Digital flight data recorders.

* * * * *
    (f) * * *
    (1) The parameters listed in paragraphs (a)(1) through (a)(88) of 
this section must be recorded within the ranges, accuracies, 
resolutions, and recording intervals specified in Appendix E to this 
part.
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    (n) In addition to all other applicable requirements of this 
section, all Boeing 737 model airplanes manufactured after August 18, 
2000 must record the parameters listed in paragraphs (a)(88) through 
(a)(91) of this section within the ranges, accuracies, resolutions, and 
recording intervals specified in Appendix E to this part. Compliance 
with this paragraph is required no later than February 2, 2011.

    Issued in Washington, DC, on July 2, 2009.
Pamela Hamilton-Powell,
Director, Office of Rulemaking.
[FR Doc. E9-16057 Filed 7-8-09; 8:45 am]

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