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Civil Aviation Act, 2009 (Act No. 13 of 2009)

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Civil Aviation Regulations, 2011

Part 12 : Aviation Accidents and Incidents

Subpart 4 : Scene of an Accident

12.04.3 Control of evidence

 

(1) An aircraft, a wreck, or wreckage, and anything transported in an aircraft and any marks resulting from an accident which may be of assistance in an investigation, shall remain under the control of an investigator-in-charge until released by such investigator-in-charge.

 

(2) The Executive responsible  for Aircraft  Accident and Incident investigation shall arrange for the read-out of a flight recorder without delay.

 

(3) In the event that the Executive responsible for Aircraft Accident and I ncident investigation does not have adequate facilities to read out a flight  recorder, the Executive responsible for Aircraft Accident and Incident  investigation shall use a facility made available by another State, giving consideration to location, capability, and timeliness of such a read-out facility.

 

[Regulation 12.04.3 substituted by regulation 4(i) of Notice No. R. 3169, GG 48228, dated 17 March 2023 (Twenty-Fifth Amendment of the Civil Aviation Regulations, 2023)]