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NTSB Reiterates Part 135 SE Exclusion Recommendations
After another similar accident, the NTSB again recommended that single-engine commercial ops be included in load manifest regs under FAR 135.63(c).
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In its final report on the Aug. 16, 2021, upset accident of a Cessna 208 on a passenger-carrying air-taxi flight, the NTSB reiterated its previous recommendations that the FAA include single-engine aircraft in the load manifest requirements of FAR 135.63(c) that currently apply only to multiengine aircraft. The pilot and nine passengers were uninjured during the upset.

The NTSB addressed this exclusion with safety recommendations in 1990, 2014, and 2021, asking the FAA to add single-engine aircraft to the requirements. Because the FAA did not accept the recommendations, the NTSB has closed them out as “unacceptable action.”

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