---
kind: "section"
citation: "14 C.F.R. § 107.21"
title: "14"
number: "107.21"
heading: "In-flight emergency."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/14/107.21"
---

# §107.21. In-flight emergency.

- (a) In an in-flight emergency requiring immediate action, the remote pilot in command may deviate from any rule of this part to the extent necessary to meet that emergency.
- (b) Each remote pilot in command who deviates from a rule under [paragraph (a)](#a) of this section must, upon request of the Administrator, send a written report of that deviation to the Administrator.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 49 U.S.C. 106(f), 40101 note, 40103(b), 44701(a)(5), 46105(c), 46110, 44807.

### Source

Source: Docket FAA-2015-0150, Amdt. 107-1, 81 FR 42209, June 28, 2016, unless otherwise noted.