AIR CRASH VICTIM: Firemen carry a victim who is pierced by iron rod in his back.
HANDLING TRAUMA: A senior police officer helps to stabilise a badly injured victim.
BODY COUNT: Firemen arrange the dead bodies.
GHASTLY BUT: Medical staff attends to the victim whose intestines protruded from a wound in his stomach.
READY TO FERRY VICTIMS: Ambulance is ready to deploy injured victims to the hospital.
UNDER CONTROL: Field commander of the drill, Inspector Samat Jeraie (second right) is briefed by his men on the number of victims.
SIBU: A plane went down at high noon here, triggering 100 personnel into emergency mode including ‘actors’ for real-life victims during a drill organised by Malaysia Airport Berhad (MAB) Sibu yesterday.
Field commander of the air crash drill was Inspector Samat Jeraie,in the response which saw about 100 persons in synchronised real-life roles involving MAB Support Unit, Department of Civil Aviation, Sibu Hospital, Sibu Water Board, Police, Fire and Rescue Department, Red Crescent Society, Civil Defence Department and Meteorological Department.
In the simulated air crash, a man and a woman were killed after X Airline ATR 600 Series aircraft carrying 34 passengers skidded and crashed at Sibu Airport during landing at about noon yesterday.
Grisly scenes not unlike a real air crash saw four people seriously injured, with one pierced by an iron rod in his back.
Another frightful scene was a man seriously injured in the stomach, with his guts exposed.
The flight ABC123 from Pontianak, Kalimantan to Sibu was facing technical problems during landing. Then a tyre burst!
However, there were no actual casualties as this was a drill – which ended at 1.20pm. But Sibu Airport and all relevant departments stand better synchronised to handle a real air disaster.