AIRPORT ACCIDENT INFORMATION WORKSHEET
January 18, 2017
The Transportation Disaster Assistance Division of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB TDA) has developed an Airport Accident Information Worksheet as a guidance tool to assist Part 121 air carriers with providing information related to Persons on Board (POB) to airport rescue personal for the purpose of rescue and lifesaving efforts that occur immediately after an accident happens. The worksheet is guidance for carriers to use within their emergency response planning process and can be tailored for individual air carrier emergency response procedures. NTSB TDA expects that local air carrier station managers/operations personnel can complete the worksheet during an accident/evacuation/event and provide it to the ARFF Chief/Incident Commander and/or the Airport Emergency Operations Center. The intent of this worksheet is to help eliminate confusion and open the lines of communication between airports and local air carrier management as it relates to information about Persons on Board an aircraft.
The worksheet was developed after NTSB’s recent accident report for the “Runway Excursion During Landing Delta Airlines Flight 1086 Boeing MD-88, N909DL, New York, New York, March 5, 2015” and reoccurring concerns found in other emergency evacuations such as, having precise information about the number of passengers onboard an airplane, including lap-held children, and making this information available to emergency responders after an accident to facilitate timely search and rescue operations.
The worksheet can be found at: https://www.ntsb.gov/tda/Documents/NTSB-TDA-Accident-Supp-Form-2016.pdf
If you have any questions, please contact Evelyn Sahr (esahr@eckertseamans.com; 202-659-6622) or Drew Derco (dderco@eckertseamans.com; 202-659-6665).
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