Crash preparedness tested at Ahmedabad airport

Ahmedabad: The Airports Authority of India, along with several other airlines, hospitals and the state police and fire brigade personnel carried out a full-scale exercise to ascertain its preparedness in case of an aircraft crash.
The mock-drill was carried out at SVPI Airport, Ahmedabad in which a bus was used instead of an aircraft to represent a crash-landed plane on runway 23. Following the exercise, the airport director went through the actions taken to ensure that all procedures for such an eventuality was properly followed according to the rule book.
25/12/11 Daily News & Analysis/dailybhaskar.com

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Categories: airports Dec 2011