Beja: Emergency landing plane in Civil Terminal with “bomb on board”
To Airbus A330 “on the ground” emergency in “threat” pump. Inside there are passengers, after parked mill “explode” and “triggers” a fire. This was the stage set for an exercise in Beja Civil Terminal.
A plane with about eight dozen people on board, emergency landing on the runway of the Air Base 11, in Beja, under bomb threat on board. After stationed in northern top of the Beja of the Civil Terminal board (TCB), in the same place where he parked the Airbus A380, the bomb explodes, followed by a fire.
The realization of this type of exercise is required for maintenance purposes of the Aerodrome Certificate, It has a frequency of at least two years, this is the fourth since the airport activities of the TCB and is overseen by the National Civil Aviation Authority (ANAC).
The exercise began at 14,48 hours, and aims to test the Emergency Plan TCB, whose responsible for activating and coordinating, the commander of Air Base 11, together with the director of the Civil Terminal, through an emergency simulation to full scale, and involving various entities in supporting the victims of a hypothetical plane crash, mobilizing several hundred operational and vehicles.
A Estrada Municipal 528-2, connecting the rotunda IP8, the locality of San Brissos, in Beja county, Access to the airport, It was closed to civil traffic, this being the location to be diverted Beringel, in the same county, to access the nearby villages of airport infrastructure.
Among the passengers (extras) on the plane, there are close to ten and injured half, which are transported to the emergency room of the Hospital of Beja and 3 dead, whose bodies are taken to the Medico-Legal Office, located in the same hospital. For greater speed in the rescue was created an "emergency corridor", between the airport and the hospital Beja.
In addition to the military services of BA11, namely fire, and airport, security and assistance forces, They are involved various entities outside the scope of the regional Civil Protection and municipal, Fire bodies, public health services and civil and military authorities for early intervention and resolution of the situation.
The Beja district was under yellow warning, but because of the strong sea waves, but the IPMA predicted periods of rain or showers and strong wind, locally intense in some regions of Alentejo, and 3 minutes before 14,00 hours, estimated time for the beginning of the year fell a strong showers, which have delayed the beginning of the year.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
