Unanswered,
I've been patient in responding to your questions for a while now, but your post here and your subsequent replies certainly scream flame-bait. The question you ask is very very basic to even the student-pilot level, let alone a private pilot level. It's something that's covered in any private pilot manual, and certainly in your commercial "far/aim" reprint.
Your responses calling JAFI an idiot are laughable. I don't know him or her personally, but clearly the person is no idiot. Further, he or she takes time to respond on this site and provide some very valueable insight from a regular employee of the Administration. You're fortunate to have the input, and not too smart to mouth off about it or offend those who would help you.
You really need to lose the avatar depicting an aircraft apparently narrowly missing a building. In our post 09/11 era, it's in poor taste and very inappropriate.
Incidentally, any ground school provides this information; it's very basic.
"Aircraft accident" means 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 and all such persons have disembarked, and in which any person suffers death or serious injury, or in which the aircraft receives substantial damage.
You ask what other types of accidents are there but what are defined under 49 CFR 830.2. The definition of accident as it applies to that subpart are as I've just provided you. There are no other accidents. There are incidents but not accidents; for the purposes of NTSB 830, an accident is clearly defined.
According to the NTSB, you must make immediate notification of an accident that has resulted in serious injury/death to any occupants and/or major damage to the aircraft.
Not exactly. According to NTSB 830, an aircraft accident requires immediate notification, period. Additional reportable items are also cited, but any aircraft accident, defined as provided above, requires immediate notification. The regulation says nothing about "other accidents." You need to read the regulation.
They further state that no other accidents need to be reported unless requested.
The regulation says no such thing. What the regulation does do is specify what constitutes a requirement for immediate notification. Additional pragraphs also clarify what requires a report to be filed, and the conditions and requirements thereof.
You'll note in the following, the language regarding what requires immediate notification, the sentence "
An aircraft accident OR any of the following listed incidents..."
§ 830.5 Immediate notification.
The operator of any civil aircraft, or any public aircraft not operated by the Armed Forces or an intelligence agency of the United States, or any foreign aircraft shall immediately, and by the most expeditious means available, notify the nearest National Transportation Safety Board (Board) field office \1\ when:
(a) An aircraft accident or any of the following listed incidents occur:
(1) Flight control system malfunction or failure;
(2) Inability of any required flight crewmember to perform normal flight duties as a result of injury or illness;
(3) Failure of structural components of a turbine engine excluding compressor and turbine blades and vanes;
(4) In-flight fire; or
(5) Aircraft collide in flight.
(6) Damage to property, other than the aircraft, estimated to exceed $25,000 for repair (including materials and labor) or fair market value in the event of total loss, whichever is less.
(7) For large multiengine aircraft (more than 12,500 pounds maximum takeoff weight);
(i) In-flight failure of electrical systems which requires the sustained use of an emergency bus powered by a backup source such as a battery, auxiliary power unit, or air driven generator to retain flight control or essential instruments;
(ii) In-flight failure of hydraulic systems that results in sustained reliance on the sole remaining hydraulic or mechanical system for movement of flight control surfaces;
(iii) Sustained loss of the power or thrust produced by two or more engines; and
(iv) An evacuation of an aircraft in which an emergency egress system is utilized.
(b) An aircraft is overdue and is believed to have been involved in an accident.
