14 C.F.R. § 450.115

Current through November 30, 2024
Section 450.115 - Flight safety analysis methods
(a)Scope of the analysis. An operator's flight safety analysis method must account for all reasonably foreseeable events and failures of safety-critical systems during nominal and non-nominal launch or reentry that could jeopardize public safety.
(b)Level of fidelity of the analysis. An operator's flight safety analysis method must have a level of fidelity sufficient to-
(1) Demonstrate that any risk to the public satisfies the safety criteria of § 450.101 , including the use of mitigations, accounting for all known sources of uncertainty, using a means of compliance accepted by the Administrator; and
(2) Identify the dominant source of each type of public risk with a criterion in § 450.101(a) or (b) in terms of phase of flight, source of hazard (such as toxic exposure, inert, or explosive debris), and failure mode.
(c)Application requirements. An applicant must submit a description of the flight safety analysis methodology, including identification of:
(1) The scientific principles and statistical methods used;
(2) All assumptions and their justifications;
(3) The rationale for the level of fidelity;
(4) The evidence for validation and verification required by § 450.101(g) ;
(5) The extent to which the benchmark conditions are comparable to the foreseeable conditions of the intended operations; and
(6) The extent to which risk mitigations were accounted for in the analyses.

14 C.F.R. §450.115

85 FR 79719 , 3/10/2021