Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) Subject to this section, a flight of an aircraft is, for the purposes of this Act, taken to end when the first external door is opened after the aircraft comes to rest on the next landing it makes after starting the flight.
(2) Where an aircraft makes a forced landing, its flight is, for the purposes of this Act, taken to end when the competent authorities take over responsibility for the aircraft and for the persons and property on board.
(3) If, after an aircraft starts a flight:
(a) the aircraft is destroyed before the flight is taken to have ended under subsection ( 1) or (2); or
(b) the flight is abandoned;
the flight is, for the purposes of this Act, taken to end when the aircraft is destroyed, or the flight is abandoned, as the case requires.