{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2015-640/annex-I/division-subpart+b/division-26.60",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2015-640/annex-I/division-subpart+b/division-26.60.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2015/640",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Regulation (EU) 2015/640 of 23 April 2015 on additional airworthiness specifications for a given type of operations and amending Regulation (EU) No 965/2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2015-640",
  "path": "annex/I/division/subpart+b/division/26.60",
  "kind": "division",
  "number": "26.60",
  "heading": "Emergency landing — dynamic conditions",
  "text": "Operators of large aeroplanes used in commercial air transport of passengers, type-certified on or after 1 January 1958, and for which the individual certificate of airworthiness is first issued on or after 26 February 2021 shall demonstrate for each seat type design approved for occupancy during taxiing, take-off or landing that the occupant is protected when exposed to loads resulting from emergency landing conditions. The demonstration shall be made by one of the following means:\n(a)successfully completed dynamic tests;\n(b)rational analysis providing equivalent safety, based on dynamic tests of a similar seat type design.\nThe obligation set out in the first point shall not apply to the following seats:\n(a)flight deck crew seats;\n(b)seats in low-occupancy aeroplanes involved only in on-demand non-scheduled commercial air transport operations;\n(c)seats in an aeroplane model listed in Table A.1 of Appendix 1 and carrying a manufacturer serial number listed in that Table.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Substituted by Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/133 of 28 January 2019 amending Regulation (EU) 2015/640 as regards the introduction of new additional airworthiness specifications."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Inserted by Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/133 of 28 January 2019 amending Regulation (EU) 2015/640 as regards the introduction of new additional airworthiness specifications."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Annex 1 point 26.60 substituted (20.11.2021) by The Aviation Safety (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/1203), regs. 1(2), 21(4)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2015/640/annex/I/division/subpart+b/division/26.60",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:46:43.774088+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}