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DART Emergency Services Exercise
Spring 2002

Airplane Crash Exercise

 

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Terrorist Incident Response Exercise
Simulate Airplane Crash of Terrorist Hijacked Plane

PART I - Moffett Fire Response to Airplane Crash Exercise

The exercise simulated a hijacked dual engine aircraft crashing into a "concrete building" at NASA Ames Research Center. The exercise included three victims in the building and one live victim in the plane.

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Simulate airplane crash of terrorist hijacked plane on roof of concrete building. (29,698 bytes) Harold of IEC and CaTF-3 is the exercise coordinator and evaluator. (24,396 bytes) Final setup. (26,822 bytes) Moffett Fire is dispatched to the scene. (39,360 bytes) Moffett Fire. (43,999 bytes)
Moffett Fire Incident Command Post and Moffett Police providing support. (43,842 bytes) Moffett Fire searching for victims in partially Moffett Fire preparing to transport T6 responded to the incident. (38,661 bytes) T8 responded to the incident. Note the
Moffett Fire providing victim care. (54,702 bytes) DART Medical arriving on scene. (25,911 bytes) DART Medical providing advanced care to victims. (37,961 bytes) Roof top victim being removed. Note smoke coming from aircraft!! (26,238 bytes) Time to squirt some water boys! (31,397 bytes)
Water being applied to plane crash from the tower. (28,482 bytes) I don't know about you but I think this is a great picture! (46,867 bytes) HazMat reporting to the scene. (33,701 bytes) Medical setting up for additional potential victims. (29,821 bytes)  

PART II - DART Rescue Response to Airplane Crash Exercise

Note: The scenario changed from an airplane crashing into a one-story structure to an airplane crashing into a nine-story structure with adjacent 15-story structures. DART was required to use high-angle rope rescue techniques.

DART Rescue accessing situation. (33,714 bytes) Mark, Phil and Roger Developing Incident Action Plan. (42,331 bytes) Setting up High-Line System. (29,673 bytes) Big view of the High-Line setup. (32,601 bytes) The
Roger and Tom preparing the search camera. (51,629 bytes) Search Team member being raised. (44,222 bytes) Search Team member being raised. (39,734 bytes) Search Team member traversed into position to be lowered onto aircraft. (39,304 bytes) Search Team member (Tom Timbal) lowered to wing. (40,360 bytes)
Using gas analyzer to check atmosphere. (33,415 bytes) Second Search Team member brings the search camera. (46,218 bytes) Roger using the search camera to inspect the interior of the plane. (46,018 bytes) Stokes with medical gear being raised and traversed. (43,583 bytes) Backup Hazmat team standing by. (51,069 bytes)
The search team determined that there was a blister agent in the aircraft requiring the rescue team to suit up to make entry to remove victims. (36,870 bytes) Rescue team making entry. (44,258 bytes) Victim being removed from plane. (47,482 bytes) Victim in stokes ready to be transported by highline. (48,147 bytes) Rescuer with his victim. (31,858 bytes)
Rescuer and victim on the highline. (27,969 bytes) Overall view of the system. (50,917 bytes)      

 

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