Conducting Aeronautical Special Events at Airports (2013)

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66 APPENDIX J Considerations for Comprehensive Air Show Emergency Response Plan • Put it into writing. • Look at the Airport Emergency Plan (AEP) as a foundation. • Include answers to the toughest questions/scenarios. • Identify the role of all major and minor players in the event of an accident. • Clearly identify the person/people in charge in the event of an accident. • Designate a press spokesperson. • Paint a clear picture of the accident/incident chain of command. • Do not limit the CASERP to addressing only events that may occur during the air show waiver. • Acknowledge that incidents/accidents behind the crowd line are much more likely to occur than an aircraft accident. • Address crowd control. • Consider the staging of crash/fire/rescue vehicles to ensure timely response. • Involve crash/fire/rescue personnel in every pilot briefing. • Ensure adequate water is available for spectator and performers. • Include nontraditional air show performers. • Include fires—brush, grease, pyro. • Include kidnappings, bomb scares, and terrorist incidents. • Include responses to aircraft accidents both within and outside the aerobatic box, in front of the crowd and in the crowd, on airport property and off airport property, non- fatal and fatal, single fatalities and multiple fatalities, with and without property damage, etc. • Make plans for the cancellation of the show and under what circumstances. • Include contingencies as a result of the weather. • Include doctors, paramedic and nurses. Plan for one doc- tor for every 30,000 spectators and two paramedics or Advanced Life Support (ALS) nurses for every 10,000 spectators. • Coordinate a Disaster Mobile Assistance Team. • Provide directions on the amount of emergency supplies that will be available at the show. • Include location of first aid stations and how these will be identified by spectators. • Include a system for quickly identifying each part of the air show spectator area. • Specify how many ambulances and/or helicopters need to be available to transport patients to nearby hospitals or trauma centers. • Include plans for communicating in the event of an acci- dent, realizing that cell phone signals may become over- burdened in the event of an accident because of spectators making phone calls (Cudahy 2005, pp. 25–31).