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Article 100 Loading - commercial air transport aircraft and suspended loadsI1

United Kingdom

(1)

The operator of an aircraft registered in the Territory must not cause or permit it to be loaded for a flight for the purpose of commercial air transport, or any load to be suspended from it, except under the supervision of a person to whom written instructions have been provided as to the distribution and securing of the load so as to ensure that—

(a)

the load may safely be carried on the flight; and

(b)

any conditions subject to which the certificate of airworthiness in force for the aircraft was issued or rendered valid or contained in the flight manual for the aircraft relating to the loading of the aircraft are complied with.

(2)

The person supervising the loading of the aircraft must, before the commencement of any such flight, prepare and sign a load sheet in duplicate conforming to the specified requirements, and must (unless that person is the pilot-in-command of the aircraft) submit the load sheet for examination by the pilot-in-command of the aircraft who shall sign the same.

(3)

The operator of an aircraft registered in the Territory and flying for the purpose of the commercial air transport of passengers must not cause or permit baggage to be carried in the passenger compartment of the aircraft unless such baggage can be properly secured.

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Commencement

I1

Art. 100 in force at 1.1.2014, see art. 1