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cargo airline safety; several ALPA air safety representatives,
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including members of the ALPA President’s Committee for
Cargo (PCFC), participated and gave presentations. Ellen
Engleman-Connors, then NTSB chairman, urged the attendees
to work together to resolve the issues discussed at the
meeting—one of which was the need for cargo-specific
ARFF training.
ALPA hosts Cargo ARFF Symposium
In one of the most significant followups from that meeting,
76 folks from the airline and ARFF communities met at
ternational Airport and now an ARFF training consultant,
declared, “Firefighters will try to carry a hose into Hell and
put it out—but they don’t know enough about the airplanes
and the cargo they carry.”
Sgt. Eric Johansen of the DFW Airport Fire Services Department
noted, “The airport fire department is just a substation
of the municipal fire department—the firefighters coming onto
the airport will do much of the work” of containing and extinguishing
a fire after the initial response by the ARFF personnel,
“so that makes training even more important.”
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ALPA’s Herndon, Va., offices Nov. 13-14, 2007, for an energycharged
Cargo ARFF Symposium organized and hosted by
ALPA’s PCFC.
Attending the Cargo ARFF Symposium were the following:
• 27 ALPA representatives from nine pilot groups—Alaska,
Atlas Air, ASTAR Air Cargo, ExpressJet, FedEx Express, Gemini
Air Cargo, Kitty Hawk Aircargo, United, and US Airways;
• 17 fire/rescue and airport representatives from seven
U.S. airports—Boston Logan; Baltimore-Washington International;
Grand Forks, N.D.; Metropolitan Washington [D.C.]
Airports Authority; Reno-Tahoe, Nev.; San Jose, Calif.; and
• 32 government and airline representatives from outside
of ALPA—Air Transport Association, Airbus, Boeing, American
Association of Airport Executives, Cargo Airline Association,
Cargo Airline Association of Singapore, FAA, Flight Safety
Foundation, Independent Pilots Association (UPS), Kalitta Air,
Life Mist Technologies, National Air Traffic Controllers Association,
NTSB, Teamsters Local 1224, Transport Canada,
UPS, and Aviation Fire Journal.
Cargo-specific ARFF training
The need for cargo-specific training for ARFF personnel was
a major theme of the Symposium. While no U.S. airports are
required to provide cargo-specific training to their ARFF personnel,
some conscientious self-starters in the ARFF community
are trying to provide it nevertheless.
Capt. Les Omans, retired fire chief at San Jose (Calif.) In-
Training was a major theme for another DFW representative—
Fire Chief Brian McKinney, who said no truly realistic
ARFF training facility simulators (i.e., steel airliner mockups
in a computer-controlled fire pit) are available anywhere in
the United States for training ARFF personnel on such vital
tasks as operating cargo doors. Interior trainers are only configured
for passenger airliners, and though the FAA began
subsidizing regional ARFF training facilities in the 1990s, no
funding is available for cargo trainers. DFW has a homemade
training device with an interior fireplace, a manual
cargo door, and panels for practicing piercing and penetrating,
“but it doesn’t realistically simulate what you guys are
actually flying,” McKinney advised.
McKinney had high praise for FedEx: On Aug. 30, 2007,
he wrote to the company, asking for use of an intact
freighter for ARFF training. On September 4, he received a
reply: “The airplane will be there September 17.” The B-727
has all systems intact, and DFW firefighters may cut and
pierce the fuselage.
DFW’s plans for the future include constructing new large
aircraft firefighting simulators, with a cargo component included.
One simulator may be configured as a combi.
Christian Schmid of Airbus’ Fire Protection Systems
Group and Capt. Robert Mathis of the Boeing Fire Department
provided detailed information about their freighter
models—including how to open different types of cargo
doors from the outside of the airplane. Both manufacturers
By Jan W. Steenblik, Technical Editor
UPS DC-8 at PHL FedEx DC-10 at MEM FedEx DC-10 at MEM
From left, the ARFF response when this DC-10 landed in a blizzard with an uncontained
engine failure in BOS was outstanding; multiple errors hampered the
ARFF response at PHL and MEM, plus in other cargo accidents elsewhere.
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