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Ingested titles 12–51 and 54 from OLRC USLM XML @119-100 (the whole Code now, uniform edition; Title 53 is reserved/empty). LegalText 11,221 -> 59,740; repo total 105,704 records. Deterministic (byte-identical rerun, verified on Title 42's 8,356 sections); make check green. make legal-us-code default now covers every title. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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type: "LegalText"
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title: "49 U.S.C. § 44746"
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description: "Flight data recovery from overwater operations"
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jurisdiction: "us"
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corpus: "united_states_code"
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kind: "code_section"
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title_number: 49
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title_name: "TRANSPORTATION"
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chapter_number: "447"
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chapter_name: "SAFETY REGULATION"
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section: "44746"
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citation: "49 U.S.C. § 44746"
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status: "current"
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release_point: "119-100"
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release_date: "2026-06-26"
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source: "official"
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---
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# 49 U.S.C. § 44746 - Flight data recovery from overwater operations
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## Text
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(a) In General.— Not later than 18 months after the date of enactment of this section, the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration shall complete a rulemaking proceeding to require that, not later than 5 years after the date of enactment of this section, all applicable aircraft are—
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(1) fitted with a means, in the event of an accident, to recover mandatory flight data parameters in a manner that does not require the underwater retrieval of the cockpit voice recorder or flight data recorder;
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(2) equipped with a tamper-resistant method to broadcast sufficient information to a ground station to establish the location where an applicable aircraft terminates flight as the result of such an event; and
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(3) equipped with an airframe low-frequency underwater locating device that functions for at least 90 days and that can be detected by appropriate equipment.
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(b) Applicable Aircraft Defined.— In this section, the term “applicable aircraft” means an aircraft manufactured on or after January 1, 2028, that is—
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(1) operated under part 121 of title 14, Code of Federal Regulations;
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(2) required by regulation to have a cockpit voice recorder and a flight data recorder; and
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(3) used in extended overwater operations.
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(Added Pub. L. 118–63, title III, § 352(a), May 16, 2024, 138 Stat. 1112.)
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## Notes
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Editorial Notes
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References in TextThe date of enactment of this section, referred to in subsec. (a), is the date of enactment of Pub. L. 118–63, which was approved May 16, 2024.
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