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Simulation of an Aircraft Accident at Brussels Airport

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2012

Fr Labeeu ,
M de Backer  and
C Bellanger
Fr Labeeu
Affiliation:
Royal School of Medical Service, The Military Hospital, Brussels, Belgium, and the Belgian Forces in Germany
M de Backer
Affiliation:
Royal School of Medical Service, The Military Hospital, Brussels, Belgium, and the Belgian Forces in Germany
C Bellanger
Affiliation:
Royal School of Medical Service, The Military Hospital, Brussels, Belgium, and the Belgian Forces in Germany
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Extract

The exercise held at Brussels Airport was carried out by inexperienced personnel to highlight the most common errors and shortcomings of an existing disaster plan.

INCIDENT COMMUNICATION

Once an aircraft is known to be in trouble, all the nearby fire brigades are alerted by means of the unique call number 900 and move to take up their stand-by position close to the landing point. The Military Hospital is also alerted and sends out a liaison car, with a doctor among its occupants. This car joins the stand-by position. Once the aircraft has crashed, the fire engines rush to the site and all the major university hospitals and the Military Hospital are notified by the same 900-code number. Disaster teams arrive by road.

This report is almost exclusively limited to aspects of rescue, triage, on-site stabilization, and evacuation of the casualties.

Type
Selected papers from the 4th World Congress on Emergency and Disaster Medicine, Brighton, United Kingdom, June, 1985
Information
Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , Volume 2 , Issue 1-4: Contributions from the Second International Assembly on Emergency Medical Services-Focus on Disaster, Baltimore, Md., USA, 1986 and 4th World Congress on Emergency and Disaster Medicine Brighton, U.K. June, 1985 , 1986 , pp. 207 - 208
Copyright
Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 1986

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