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Required NTSB Notifications

Immediate Notification​

THe NTSB requires immediate notification by "the most expeditious means available", in the following cases:

  • For aircraft accident
  • For a serious aircraft incident, including:
    • Flight control system malfunction or failure
    • Inability of any required flight crewmember to perform normal flight duties as a result of injury or illness
    • Failure of any internal turbine engine component that results in the escape of debris other than out the exhaust path
    • In-flight fire
    • Aircraft collision in flight
    • Damage to property, other than the aircraft, estimated to exceed $25,000 for repair (including materials and labor) or fair market value in the event of total loss, whichever is less.
    • Release of all or a portion of a propeller blade from an aircraft, excluding release caused solely by ground contact
    • A complete loss of information, excluding flickering, from more than 50 percent of an aircraft's cockpit displays known as:
      • EFIS, EICAS, ECAM, PFD, PND
  • An aircraft is overdue and is believed to have been involved in an accident.
830.5

Required Reports​

The operator of an aircraft shall file a report (form 6120.1/2) within 10 days after an accident, or after 7 days if an overdue aircraft is still missing

830.15