Banjarmasin
– 96 people died, 18 wounded, and 6 people suffered minor injury due to the
accident of Banua Air Boeing 737-900 in Banjarmasin (25/06). That plane failed
to take off caused by technical problem and crushed in the end of runway 10 of
Syamsudin Noor Airport at 09.45 a.m., WITA. Seeing that condition, the Air
Traffic Controller (ATC) directly sounded the crash bell and contacted the watch
room officer and Airport Fire Fighting and Rescue Team (AFFR) to visit the
accident’s location. The rescue team tried to make rescue line to evacuate and
save passenger from fire.
The
supportive personnel consist of SAR Banjarmasin personnel, Brigade Fire
Fighting Banjarbaru city, TNI AU Syamsudin Noor, and Police of Banjarbaru
directly helped and evacuate the victims. Those victims were checked and
identified by port health office of Syamsudin Noor Airport to get advance aid.
Meanwhile,
the location of AFFR team ensured that the fire has been vanished. SAR team
ensured that the victims have been evacuated. Aviation Security unit (AVSEC) of
Syamsudin Noor Airport handled the pacification of location assisted by TNI AU
Lanud Syamsudin Noor and POLRES and POLSEK Banjarbaru. That location was given
a police line and watched until National Transportation Safety Committee team
come for advance identification.
In
separated place, it was reported that there were fire in one of arrival
terminal buildings caused by short electricity problem. As the consequence, an
airline officer was unconscious after being affected by fire smoke and
evacuated to the nearest hospital. That fire affected to the airline service
system (system down) so that it made one passenger being left and triggered
chaos in front of check in area. Meanwhile, a customer service officer received
bomb threat from a mysterious person.
Those
cases were part of Full Scale Excercise scenarios or Airport Emergency Plan of
Syamsudin Noor Airport Banjarmasin. From those cases, it was recorded that the
response was less than 3 minutes, which fit to the standard of International
Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO). This full scale training was participated
by 350 personnel from Airport Fire Fighting and Rescue team, Aviation Security
(Avsec), Fire Fighting Banjarbaru, BASARNAS, TNI AU Lanud Syamsudin Noor,
Polres and Polsek Banjarbaru, Rindam, Port health office, Communication and
Information agency Banjarbaru city, TNI AU hospital, etc.
In that
moment, the Operation Director of PT Angkasa Pura I (Persero) Mr. Yushan
Sayuti, explained that the Full Scale Training that has been done in all of
branch offices of PT Angkasa Pura I is routinely done in 5 airports every year.
Our hope is that all of parties such as airport consumer, airlines,
concessioner, etc. also take a part when the emergency happens anytime. He also
added, this simulation is also aimed to keep the qualification of procedural
standard in Syamsudin Noor Airport, as this year, this airport served 3,88
million passengers and 32 thousands of airlines traffic.
The
background of this activity is stated on
Airport Security Program (ASP) and Airport Emergency Plan (AEP). It is
as a guideline in case a threat of security occurred. It is also stated that
for a civil airport, if there is any threat, the general manager will lead the
operation, if it is a civil enclave (military airport functioned as civil
airport), so the operation is led by TNI (Indonesia Military Forces)
This
AEP in Syamsyudin Noor Airport is part of the 77th Dirgantara
Raharja, PT> Angkasa Pura I (persero). It is aimed to evaluate the
effectiveness of Emergency Plan Organization in Syamsyudin Noor Airport.
Besides, it is also aimed to test the function of commands, communication and
coordination between units and related instances through AEP procedures and to
improve the ability of each personnel (Translated by Yeni Mujiatin).
