Originally Posted by
PickyPerkins
However, the problem of applying 7.41(1)(c) seems to me (and I am not a lawyer) to be that in all these cases the aircraft is not in flight, its firmly on the ground and stationary, so that the regulation does not apply.
You don't need to be a lawyer. Just read a few lines further on in the Act:
"(3) For the purpose of subsection (1), an aircraft is deemed to be in flight from the time when all external doors are closed following embarkation until the time at which any external door is opened for the purpose of disembarkation."