Civil Aviation Act, 2009 (Act No. 13 of 2009)RegulationsCivil Aviation Regulations, 2011Part 121 : Air Transport Operations - Carriage on Aeroplanes of more than 19 Passengers or CargoSubpart 2 : Operations Personnel RequirementsDivision One : Minimum crew requirements121.02.3 Flight and cabin crew member emergency duties |
| (1) | An air operator and, where appropriate, the PIC shall assign to each flight and cabin crew member concerned the necessary functions to be performed in an emergency or a situation requiring emergency evacuation and the operator shall establish emergency evacuation procedures based on such assignment. |
| (2) | The functions referred to in subregulation (1) shall be such as to ensure that any reasonably anticipated emergency can be adequately dealt with and shall take into consideration the possible incapacitation of individual flight and cabin crew members. |
| (3) | With respect to the emergency evacuation procedures required by subregulation (1)— |
| (a) | the operator shall prove to the satisfaction of the Director that the procedures to accomplish the evacuation have been adopted and are adequate; and |
| (b) | the procedures shall be demonstrated by the operator's flight and cabin crew members and carried out in accordance with the requirements prescribed in Document SA-CATS 121. |
| (4) | The operator shall carry out the emergency evacuation demonstration referred to in subregulation (3)(b) when a new type or variant of aeroplane or new configuration of an existing aeroplane is introduced for use and has not been certified under a certification process acceptable to the Director, as provided for in Document SA-CATS 121. |
| (5) | No person may use an aircraft type and model in commercial air transport passenger-carrying operations unless the operator has first conducted, for the Authority, an actual full-capacity emergency evacuation demonstration for the configuration in 90 seconds or less. |
| (6) | The Director may approve a partial-capacity demonstration in lieu of a full-capacity demonstration where the operator can produce evidence that— |
| (a) | a satisfactory full-capacity emergency evacuation for the aircraft to be operated was demonstrated during the aircraft type certification or during the certification of another operator; or |
| (b) | there is an engineering analysis, which shows that an evacuation is still possible within the 90 second standard, if the operator's aircraft configuration differs with regard to the number of exits or exit type or number of cabin crew members. |
| (7) | Where the Director has approved the partial evacuation demonstration referred to in subregulation (6), such demonstration shall be performed in the manner prescribed in Document SA-CATS 121. |
| (8) | The emergency evacuation procedures referred to in subregulation (1) shall be contained in the operator's operations manual referred to in regulation 121.04.2 and shall form part of the operator's emergency training programme. |
| (9) | No operator shall assign and no flight or cabin crew member shall perform any emergency function unless such crew member has been trained to perform emergency functions in accordance with the operator's approved emergency training programme. |