Aicraft disaster reconstruction - Bournemouth Airport

Kristoph · 8 Nov 2007 at 14:30

I took part in an aircraft disaster reconstruction last night at Bournemouth Airport, with about 100 people,3 airport fire appliances, 8 or so fire appliances, 5 or 6 ambulances and a few police cars! Was v. interesting to take part in and see how it was all handled by the airport fire team until eventually the dorset lot turned up (half an hour later!) We were told after that this is how long it would normally take, and that the airport team are needed to deal with everything until the rest of the services turn up.

The flames were pretty impressive too.

Anyone else ever taken part in a reconstruction?

Kristoph · 8 Nov 2007 at 14:54

Can a mod please re-title this to "Aicraft disaster reconstruction - Bournemouth Airport".

Thanks!

something daft already!! · 8 Nov 2007 at 14:55

That sounds very interesting. When I was a young man, I was in the Army Cadets and one weekend we went to Salisbury Plain to be "wounded solders" for medics to treat. This involved blood bags, chicken bones and "Mash style" rides in helicopters.
I went up in a Chinook and a Puma. The only way I can describe the felling is like when you go over a hill in a car and your stomach goes up, in the air, it does it in every direction!

Azza · 8 Nov 2007 at 14:57

What was this for?

Kristoph · 8 Nov 2007 at 15:04

It's held every two years at Bournemouth airport as a practice drill, but as part of the 3rd year of the Forensics course we're on - 3rd years and 2nd years are asked to help take part so they can get a bit of an insight into aircraft disasters. One of the 3rd year units is disaster control and management - so seeing how this was dealt with was pretty interesting.

Seeing how the flames were put out was pretty interesting too, they just go mental and spray it from top to bottom constantly. I've got some mobile video of the thing on my phone i'll get uploaded. Poor quality but its a crappy phone.

Kristoph · 8 Nov 2007 at 15:06

howiepoohs said:
That sounds very interesting. When I was a young man, I was in the Army Cadets and one weekend we went to Salisbury Plain to be "wounded solders" for medics to treat. This involved blood bags, chicken bones and "Mash style" rides in helicopters.
I went up in a Chinook and a Puma. The only way I can describe the felling is like when you go over a hill in a car and your stomach goes up, in the air, it does it in every direction!

So this was a drill for the Army and you were acting as the wounded, or was it mainly cadets? Never been in helicopter, unless you can count when I was 10 years old inside a mock up Sea King at an air museum sat on some hydraulics - i thought it was real

something daft already!! · 9 Nov 2007 at 13:22

mp3kla said:
So this was a drill for the Army and you were acting as the wounded, or was it mainly cadets? Never been in helicopter, unless you can count when I was 10 years old inside a mock up Sea King at an air museum sat on some hydraulics - i thought it was real

It was for the regular army, the Medical corps. There was a large "Exercise" we were involved in, great fun and a bit messy at times! Helicopter rides were the highlight though. We would be taken out, miles from anywhere in a 4 ton truck and then picked up by helicopter and flown to a camp to be "Treated" for our "wounds".