DEFENITION OF TERMS

• Aerial work refers to an aircraft operation in which an aircraft is used for specialized services such as agriculture, construction, photography, surveying, observation and patrol, search and rescue, aerial advertisement, etc.
• Aerodrome refers to an airport, a defined area on land or water (including any building, installation and equipment) intended to be used either wholly or in part for the arrival, departure and surface movement of aircraft.
• Aeronautics or aviation refers to the science and art of flight.

   
•  Aeronautical telecommunication refers to and includes any telegraph or telephone communication signs, signals, writings, images and sounds of any nature, by wire, radio or other systems or processes of signaling, used in the aeronautical service.
• Aeronautical telecommunication station refers to any station operated to provide telecommunications for aeronautical purposes.

   
• Air carrier or operator refers to a person who undertakes, whether directly or indirectly, or by a lease or any other arrangements, to engage in air transportation services or air commerce. The term may likewise
• Air commerce or commercial air transport operation refers to and includes scheduled or non-scheduled air transport services for pay or hire, the navigation of aircraft in furtherance of a business, the navigation of aircraft from one place to another for operation in the conduct of a business, or an aircraft operation involving the transport of passengers, cargo or mail for remuneration or hire.
• Aircraft refers to any machine that can derive support in the atmosphere from the reactions of the air other than the reactions of the air against the earth’s surface. The term “aircraft”, when used in this Act or in regulations issued under this Act, shall refer to civil aircraft only, and will not include State or public aircraft.
• Aircraft accident refers to an occurrence associated with the operation of an aircraft which takes place between the time any person boards the aircraft with the intention of flight until such time as all such persons have disembarked