Contingency
An event that may but is not certain to occur in the future. Equivalent Terms: Eventuality
Continuing Airworthiness Data
Information required to continually maintain an aircraft in a state of airworthiness. Such information includes, but is not limited to:
ƒ Airworthiness Directives (AD);
ƒ Manufacturers maintenance manuals;
ƒ Repair Manuals;
ƒ Supplementary Structures Inspection Documents, Service Bulletins (SB);
ƒ Service Instructions;
ƒ Service Information Letters (SIL);
ƒ Modification Leaflets;
ƒ Aircraft Maintenance Programme;
ƒ Non-destructive Testing (NDT) Manual;
ƒ others.
Equivalent Terms: Continuing Airworthiness Information
Continuing Airworthiness Management Exposition (CAME) See Maintenance Management Manual (MMM).
Continuing Structural Integrity Programme
A programme or schedule to assure the robustness and integrity of an Operator’s aircraft structure through continuous inspections and evaluations.
Continuous Surveillance
See Surveillance.
Equivalent Terms: Surveillance, Audit
Contracting See Outsourcing.
Contracting State
A state that is party to the Convention on International Civil Aviation (Chicago Convention). Equivalent Terms: Member State

Co-pilot
See Second-in-command. Controlled Document
A document that is subject to processes that provide for the positive control of content, revision, publication, distribution, availability and retention
Corrective Action
Action to eliminate the cause(s) and prevent recurrence of an existing (detected) non-conformance or an existing (detected) undesirable condition or situation.