---
kind: "section"
citation: "14 C.F.R. § 121.570"
title: "14"
number: "121.570"
heading: "Airplane evacuation capability."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/14/121.570"
---

# §121.570. Airplane evacuation capability.

- (a) No person may cause an airplane carrying passengers to be moved on the surface, take off, or land unless each automatically deployable emergency evacuation assisting means, installed pursuant to [§ 121.310(a)](/cfr/14/121.310.md?p=a), is ready for evacuation.
- (b) Each certificate holder shall ensure that, at all times passengers are on board prior to airplane movement on the surface, at least one floor-level exit provides for the egress of passengers through normal or emergency means.

## Notes

### Amendments

[Docket 26142, 57 FR 42674, Sept. 15, 1992]

### Source

Source: Docket 6258, 29 FR 19219, Dec. 31, 1964, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: 49 U.S.C. 106(f), 40103, 40113, 40119, 41706, 42301 preceding note added by Pub. L. 112-95, sec. 412, 126 Stat. 89, 44101, 44701-44702, 44705, 44709-44711, 44713, 44716-44717, 44722, 44729, 44732; 46105; Pub. L. 111-216, 124 Stat. 2348 (49 U.S.C. 44701 note); Pub. L. 112-95, 126 Stat. 62 (49 U.S.C. 44732 note); Pub. L. 115-254, 132 Stat. 3186 (49 U.S.C. 44701 note).

### Amendments

[Docket 26142, 57 FR 42674, Sept. 15, 1992]