Search and rescue of aircraft in distress or suffering from disaster, their passengers and crew, astronauts, as well as people in distress or affected by disaster at sea – definition and meaning of "Search and rescue of aircraft in distress or suffering from disaster, their passengers and crew, astronauts, as well as people in distress or affected by disaster at sea"

The search and rescue of aircraft in distress or suffering a mishap, their passengers and crews, astronauts, as well as people in distress or having suffered a mishap at sea — a set of activities aimed at determining the location of distressed or mishap-affected piloted aircraft of all types of aviation, providing assistance to their passengers and crew members, astronauts, and persons in distress or having suffered a mishap at sea, evacuating astronauts and descending space objects or their apparatuses from the landing site, as well as determining the location of distressed or mishap-affected unmanned aerial vehicles¹.

Aircraft Code of the Russian Federation. 1997, as amended on January 30, 2024, Article 88, paragraph 1. ↩