Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C00288:reg:6:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C00288
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 6 (pt 2/5)
Character Range: 11149–13993

Note: The Aeronautical Information Publication could in 2021 be viewed on the Airservices Australia website (https://www.airservicesaustralia.com).
Australian territory means:
 (a) the territory of Australia and of every external Territory; and
 (b) the territorial sea of Australia and of every external Territory; and
 (c) the air space over any such territory or sea.
CASA means the Civil Aviation Safety Authority established by the Civil Aviation Act 1988.
Category A (passenger transport) aircraft operation: see section 8.
Category B (commercial non‑passenger) aircraft operation: see section 9.
Category C (non‑commercial) aircraft operation: see section 10.
Category D (type 2 RPA and certain uncrewed balloons) aircraft operation: see section 11.
declaration of an emergency, in relation to an aircraft, means:
 (a) a declaration, by a flight crew member of the aircraft, of an alert phase (PAN PAN) or a distress phase (MAYDAY); or
 (b) a declaration by an air traffic service provider of a distress phase (DETRESFA) in relation to the aircraft.
Department of Defence means the Department administered by the Minister administering the Defence Act 1903.
excluded aircraft: see subsection 7(3).
fatal aircraft‑related injury: a person suffers a fatal aircraft‑related injury in relation to the operation of an aircraft if:
 (a) the person suffers an injury as a result of:
 (i) being in the aircraft during the operation; or
 (ii) direct contact during the operation with any part of the aircraft, including parts which have become detached from the aircraft; or
 (iii) direct exposure to jet blast during the operation; and
 (b) the person dies as a result of the injury within 30 days after the injury occurs; and
 (c) none of the following applies:
 (i) the injury results from natural causes;
 (ii) the injury is intentionally self‑inflicted;
 (iii) the injury is intentionally caused by another person;
 (iv) the injury is to a person who is a stowaway in a part of the aircraft that is not usually accessible to crew members or passengers after take‑off.
flight crew member means a crew member who is a pilot or flight engineer assigned to carry out duties essential to the operation of an aircraft during flight time.
Note: This definition includes a remote pilot of an RPA (see the definitions of crew member and pilot in section 5).
flight engineer means the holder of a flight engineer licence.
fuel exhaustion, in relation to an aircraft, means that the aircraft has exhausted its useable fuel.
fuel starvation, in relation to an aircraft, means an interruption to the fuel supply to the aircraft's engines, although there is useable fuel on board the aircraft.
ICAO means the International Civil Aviation Organization referred to in the Convention on International Civil Aviation, done at Chicago on 7 December 1944.
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