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Emergency

Response Plans

All Member Associations should be prepared for
assisting their members if they become involved in
an incident and/or accident.

A key element of this preparation is a is an IFALPA 24-hour emergency contact
well rehearsed, effective, and up to date number (+44 1202 653 110) which leads
Emergency Response Plan which should to a centre based in the United Kingdom
include a Critical Incident Response Pro- and from there the information is sent to
gram. Would your own Plan work if it the relevant IFALPA Officers who will re-
had to be used today? act accordingly. They act as relay with the
Member Associations involved so that
The purpose of this article is to underline appropriate action can be taken.
the importance of such a Plan and to re-
mind members of what to do if they are Once the local Member Association is in-
involved in an incident or accident and formed that there is an accident or seri-
where to find useful information. ous incident in their vicinity, they should
ideally form two teams (manpower per-
IFALPA’s Accident Analysis and Preven- mitting). One team to look after the phys-
tion (AAP) Committee has compiled an ical needs of the crew involved, and the
Aircraft Accident and Incident Investiga- other team to undertake being part of the
tion Handbook which can be found on investigation.
the IFALPA Hub (ask the IFALPA Director
of your home Member Association for It is recognised that in smaller Associa-
access to the Hub). tions this may be just two people, but
until the investigation is complete it is
It contains information on the investiga- important that these two teams have no
tion process and provides guidelines for contact with each other in order to en-
pilots involved in an accident or incident sure that the investigation is not compro-
and guidelines for Member Associations mised by a conflict of interest.
to provide assistance to those pilots.
The Emergency Response Plan should
All Member Associations are encouraged contain all relevant contact details of
to have a 24-hour emergency contact those able to assist the pilots concerned.
number for their members to be able There should be broad guidelines of what
to receive immediate assistance. There the pilot should initially do, for example: