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“GO TEAMS” A Value to Your Department?. Eric Johansen and John Griffin DFW Airport Fire Services. Objectives:. What is a Go Team? Who should be on a Go Team? What are the functions of the Go Team? What is the Value of a Go Team?. What is a Go Team?.
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“GO TEAMS”A Value to Your Department? Eric Johansen and John GriffinDFW Airport Fire Services
Objectives: • What is a Go Team? • Who should be on a Go Team? • What are the functions of the Go Team? • What is the Value of a Go Team?
What is a Go Team? Various members of airport departments who respond to aircraft incidents at other airports for the purpose of gaining knowledge and lessons learned to bring back and apply at their airport.
Who should be on a Go Team? • Fire Service Personnel • Law Enforcement Personnel • Airport Operations • Airport Maintenance • Other local mutual aid jurisdictions.
What are the functions of the Go Team? • To review the emergency response • Evaluate the effectiveness of SOPs/ AEP • To interview first responders / gather lessons learned • Make recommendations for changes in local SOPs/ AEP
What is the Value of a Go Team? • There absolutely no value if we do not learn from others lessons. • There is no value if we do not apply the incident response to our own jurisdictions in an honest and truthful manner. • There is no value if we do not make changes to our SOPs and AEPs. • There is no value if we are arrogant and think we can handle anything.
A Recent Go Team Member’s Experience On January 15, 2009, US Airways flight 1549, an Airbus Industrie A320-214, N106US, experienced an almost complete loss of thrust in both engines after encountering a flock of birds and was subsequently ditched on the Hudson River about 8.5 miles from LaGuardia Airport (LGA), New York City, New York. The flight was en route to Charlotte Douglas International Airport, Charlotte, North Carolina, and had departed LGA about 2 minutes before the in-flight event occurred. The 150 passengers, including a lap held child, and 5 crewmembers evacuated the airplane via the forward and overwing exits. One flight attendant and four passengers were seriously injured, and the airplane was substantially damaged. There were no fatalities.
New York, LGA Go Team Report • What was the response? • When did we arrive? • How were we received? • What were the Lessons Learned? • Did we make any changes to our operation or AEP?
A Recent Go Team Member’s Experience On February 12, 2009, a Colgan Air, Inc., Bombardier DHC-8-400, N200WQ, operating as Continental Connection flight 3407, was on an instrument approach to Buffalo-Niagara International Airport, Buffalo, New York, when it crashed into a residence in Clarence Center, New York, about 5 nautical miles northeast of the airport. The 2 pilots, 2 flight attendants, and 45 passengers aboard the airplane were killed, one person on the ground was killed, and the airplane was destroyed by impact forces and a postcrash fire. The National Transportation Safety Board determines the probable cause(s) of this accident as follows: The captain’s inappropriate response to the activation of the stick shaker, which led to an aerodynamic stall from which the airplane did not recover.
Clarence Center NY—Buffalo Go Team Report • What was the response? • When did we arrive? • How were we received? • What were the Lessons Learned? • Did we make any changes to our operation or AEP?
