Aircraft crash -disaster training prepares Ems at Columbia Regional Airport

Columbia, Mo. (KMIZ)

Firefighters and doctors used a bus to simulate an airplane with injured passengers during a drill at the Columbia Regional Airport.

The three -year training enables the emergency staff to react to a simulated plane crash.

A Go Como transitbus that simulates an aircraft came to the COUS asphalt with dozens of volunteer -crash victims on Monday morning. Some had a special make -up to resemble their assigned injuries.

“There is a lot going on when we are called to these incidents,” said Wayne Cummins, captain of the Columbia fire brigade. “Obviously we have to withdraw all layers as soon as we are here and find out where the priorities are. And as soon as we work all agencies together, it will be organized pretty quickly.”

“Victim” treated the simulation like a real emergency by behaving as if they had broken or dead. During the exercise, the emergency papers triumphed patients due to their simulated injuries.

“We may have no people who were not injured who could go away from the scene, right down to practice, to have to do with a death,” said airport manager Mike Parks. “So we take it through this scenario (rescue worker) to practice with your triage.”

Some victims were brought back to the airport car park by ambulance, others rose to an EMS helicopter of the MU health care, which they did not fly away from the scene.

“What the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) requires is that we try to be as close as possible to the number of volunteers that we would have for the average aircraft used at the airport,” said Parks. “In this way, it ensures that we have enough victims to practice with all rescue workers.”

The FAA requires complete emergency exercise at the airport every three years to maintain the certification.

Parks said that during the implementation of the exercise, emergency service partners enables to work personally together, but it is not the only time that the municipality discusses the emergency provision at the airport.

“We always communicate,” said Parks. “We always have annual discussions about emergencies and how we would react.”

The city of Columbia teamed up on Monday with the Boone County Office of Emergency Management, local law enforcement and fire brigade authorities, health service providers and the healing army. Rescue workers arrived in the simulated scene in staggered times, like in a real emergency.

“We don't want people to drive all the way out of Columbia or down here in the southern part of the county,” said Parks. “So we do the emergency helpers in a nearby parking lot and then with a simulated reaction time from the headquarters of their agency.”

Cummins said the way the exercise is set up helps the agencies to get a feeling of accuracy of what the response to a flight accident in Columbia would look like.

“The order of arrival, shipping, as we deal with the goals in the scene, were very realistic,” said Cummins.

Initial units have set up and organized the response to the command to the scene. Cummins said a lot needs to get together and assess a scene of this kind. It is therefore important to be prepared.

“It was a good opportunity for us (all agencies) to train and work together under these conditions,” said Cummins.

All agencies concluded the exercise with a private discussion after the effect.

“We will go through everything that was going out there today, the goods, the villains, things that could have been better,” said Cummins. “And we will work together, all agencies to discuss this and to ensure that God really forbids this, that we could be better prepared and ready to do it if we really have to.”

According to the National Transportation Safety Board, there were at least 250 US aircraft incidents in the first quarter of 2025, 37 of which were fatal.

MID-Missouri are private aircraft accidents far more frequently than commercial aircraft tangles. The last crash at COU was in July 2011 when the pilot of a small aircraft did not fall down to the chassis of his aircraft. He was not hurt.

The last fatal crash in Columbia occurred in September 2009 when a pilot of a small plane crash shortly after the start in bad weather.

On April 16, a one -year anniversary of a fatal plane crash in the southern Boone County was.

It also approaches the first anniversary of an aircraft crash that took place near the Butler Memorial Airport in Butler, Missouri. Six people were forced to attribute the small aircraft.

A fatal collision with medium air in Virginia in January included a passenger aircraft from the American Airlines and a Black Hawk military helicopter near the National Airport of Ronald Reagan Washington.

The same aircraft model that is involved in the crash – CRJ 700S – fly in and from the regional airport Columbia. American Airlines CRJ 700 aircraft are used for some flights from Skywest between Columbia and Dallas.