Executive Summary - Fss.aero
Executive Summary - Fss.aero
Executive Summary - Fss.aero
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lost consciousness. At 0835, it informed the Tao Yuan Ground Service Company that<br />
a passenger had lost consciousness and would need supporting equipment to hoist and<br />
lower the person. At 0840, the stretcher and the host and lower equipment were<br />
already on standby at parking Bay 608. Until 0920 the aircraft was towed to parking<br />
Bay 608, where the equipment awaited the patient. The site commander did not<br />
command the stretcher as well as the hoist and lower equipment to standby on the<br />
runway<br />
and to assist the medical personnel to immediately escort the patient down the<br />
aircraft.<br />
At approximately 0852, the aircraft landed and stopped<br />
at the runway, the site<br />
commander did not communicate with the cockpit directly<br />
through radio. The cockpit<br />
and ground communication lines, those capable of communicating<br />
with the cockpit,<br />
were with the ground crew who came to the side of the aircraft together with the<br />
towing car. The site commander had to go through the tower to communicate with the<br />
cockpit and the co-pilot had no idea of what kind of emergency support the airport<br />
could provide. The commanding instructions and information of the site could not be<br />
transmitted<br />
clearly and timely.<br />
The<br />
site commander was able to contact firefighting and medical units and put them<br />
on standby. After the aircraft came to a stop, the site commander was, because of poor<br />
communication with the cockpit, not able to know the reason why the aircraft was<br />
not<br />
able to taxi to the aircraft-parking bay. He did not command a stretcher and the<br />
medical<br />
coordinator (medical personnel from the airport clinical division of Min Shen<br />
Hospital) to go to the runway with the ambulance to provide support services by<br />
carrying the patient on a stretcher down to the aircraft<br />
and rushing him to the hospital.<br />
The<br />
site commander was not in a position to fully take position to initiate the real-<br />
time rescue immediately after the aircraft landed Moreover; such similar medical<br />
emergency procedures<br />
were not seen on the related Airport Emergency Response<br />
Manual.<br />
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