This SAE Aerospace Recommended Practice (ARP) applies to survival kits to be carries with life rafts or slide/rafts on transport category airplanes flying extended over water routes and equipped with approved satelite alerting devices (e.g. 406 MHz Emergency Locator Transmitter (ELT)), available for deployment after an emergency landing.

The purpose of this document is to establish the minimum contents for survival kits so as to enhance health and survivability of airplane occupants after a planned or unplanned landing on open water or a remote land environment.