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32 CHAPTER 4 IDENTIFICATION AND REVIEW OF "ACCIDENTS OF INTEREST" Air carrier passenger aircraft accidents were reviewed to determine whether or not if different ARFF standards were in effect at the time of the accident there would have been a different outcome in terms of a reduced number of fatalities and/or serious injuries. Specifically the research scope was directed towards looking at what the differences in fatalities and serious injuries may have been if standards set forth by the International Civil Aviation Organization or the National Fire Protection Association would have been in effect, in lieu of the standards set forth by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
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33 accident. Serious injury means any injury which: (1)
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34 falling just beyond the response areas identified in those standards. Accidents that start on the airport but may end up outside the airport or the areas specified in this criteria were included in the review.
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35 The results from the preceding Internet search were crosschecked with accidents that were included in the Flight Safety Foundation (FSF) report entitled Reducing the Risk of on Runway Excursions and the Airport Cooperative Research Program project 04-08, Improved Models for Risk Assessments of Runway Safety Areas.
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36 that occurred during apron and taxiing operations. Finally there were 11 accidents that were categorized as "Other." Each of these accident types is discussed further in this section.
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37 There was only one accident that involved a fatality resulting from the evacuation of the aircraft (11/20/2000-KMIA)
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38 that there were also several other accidents (far more than 38) involving emergency evacuations that were initially reviewed but not included in this study effort since the accident did not involve any serious injuries.
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39 Table 9. Accidents Involving Runway Collisions (1989-2008)
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40 (3/9/97, KRN) , the air traffic controllers could not contact ARFF because of the firefighters' failure to reset the alarm from an earlier notification.
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41 Photo courtesy of Denver International Airport Rapid Response Area The Rapid Response Area (RRA) is a much larger area than either the FAA or ICAO have in their standards.
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42 Table 10. Accidents Abeam the Runway Outside the Runway Safety Area but in the Rapid Response Area (1989-2008)
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