The Report of the Committee On.Avlatlon Is Presented For
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Report of Committee on Aviation Bruce A. Warner, ICI Americas Inc. (Alternate to P. O. Huston)- William S. Weeks, Airline Pilots Assoc. Rep. ALPA Correl ati ng Committee (Alternate to P, Robinson) • JamesF. O'Regan, Chairman Nonvoting • FeeconCorp. Gary Hammack, Nat'l Transportation Safety Board (TE-IO) L. M. Krasner, Vice Chairman John E. Lodge, Lodge Fire Protection Consultancy Ltd Factory Mutual Research Corp. (Member Emeritus) Mark T. Conroy, Secretary Edward F. Mudrowsky, Nat'l Transportation SaFety Board- National-Fire Protection Assoc. (Alternate to G. Hammack)" .(nonvoting) Staff Liaison: Mark l. Conroy Gene E, Benzenberg, Alison Control Inc. This llst represents the membership at the time John R. Flynn, American Airlines the Committee ~las balloted on the text of this William M. Geraghty, Burlin~ame, CA edition. Since that time, changes in the Bruce R. Pashley, Ogden Allled Aviation Servlces membership may have occurred. John F. Rooney, Tucson, AZ Donald 3. Slater Jr., Hartford Steam Boiler Stanley 3. Wolek, Port Authority of NY & N3 The Report oF the Committee on.Avlatlon is presented For adoption in Z parts, Report of Committee on Part I oF this Report, was prepared by the Technical Committee on AircraFt Rescue and Fire AircraFt Rescue and Fire Eighting Fighting and proposes for adoption amendments to NFPA 40214-1989, Manual for Aircraft Rescue and Fire Fighting Operations. NFPA 402M is published in John F. Rooney, Chairman Volume I0 of the Iggo National Fire Codes and in Tucson, AZ separate pamphlet form. James F. O'Regan, Vice Chairman Part I of this Report has been submitted to Feecon Corp. letter ballot of the Technical Committee on AircraFt Rescue and Fire Fighting which consists of James 3. Brenneman, Sunnyvale,.CA 28 voting members; of whom 21 voted affirmatively, Bernard Brown, Civil Aviation Authority 0 negatively, l'abst~ined (Santamaria), and 6 Booker T. Burley, Atlanta Int'1 Airport ballot(s) were not returned (Messrs. Burley, Robert L. Darwin, Dept of the Navy - Fire Prot Dlv Oldion, Geyer, MacPhail, Schuster, and Walker). R. E. Didion, Simon-Duplex, Inc. Paul R. Funk, Lambert-St Louis Int'l Mr. Santamaria abstained for the Following Rep. IAFC reason: George B. Geyer, FAA Technical Ctr "With respect to NFPA 402M, Section 6-2 - B. V. Hewes, Airport Safety Services " AircraFt Fuel Tank, it is considered that no Paul O. Huston, Amerex Corp. changes to the concept and critical area Rep. FEMA calculations are required due to the introduction L. M. Krasner, Factory Mutual Research Corp. oF aircraft carrying extra fuel within the Dan Lanzdorf, Oshkosh Truck Corp. horizontal and vertical stabilizers. Aircraft with Thomas 3. Lett, Albuquerque Fire Safety Assoc. Inc. extra fuel within the stabilizer have already been Rep. NFPA/FSS in use and no particular problems related to rescue Richard E. Livingston, Int'l Airl'ine Passengers Assoc. and fire Fighting operations have been experienced Donald A MacPhail, British Airports Authority plc, because of the location of the additional fuel Robert 3. Manley, Int'l Federatio~ of Airline Pilots tank." Davis R. Parsons, Los Angeles City Fire Dept. Keith R. Pollard, National Foam System, Inc. Part I of this Report has also been submitted Paul R. Robinson, Marrietta, GA to letter ballot of the Correlating Committee on Rep. ALPA Aviation which consists of 9 voting members; of Robert R. Rogers, Long Island Mac~rthur Airport whom all 9 voted affirmatively. Bertrand F. Ruggles, FAA Dept of Transportation- 3ose L. Santamaria, Int'l Civil Aviation Organization Part II of this Report, was prepared by the 3ohn M. Schuster, 3M Company Technical Committee on Aircraft Rescue and Fire John X. Stefanki, John X. Stefanki Inc•, Fighting and proposes; for adoption amendments to Joseph L. Walker, United States Air Force NFPA 42414-1986, ManuzLl for Airport/Community William 3. Wenzel, Walter Truck Corp. Emergency Planning. NFPA 424M is published iff Volume I0 of the 1990 National Fire Codes and in separate pamphlet form. Alternates Part II of this Report has been submitted to letter ballot of the Technical Committee on Joan M. Leedy, Minnesota Mining & ManuFacturing Co. AircraFt Rescue and Fire Fighting which consists of (Alternate to 3. M. Schuster) 28 voting members; oF whom 22 voted affirmatively, Thomas E. McMaster, Los Angeles City Fire Dept. 0 negatively, and'6 ballots were net returned (Alternate to D; R. Parsons) (Messrs. Burley, Didi'on, Geyer, MacPhail, Schuster, W~lliam E. Moore, US Federal Aviation Admin. and Walker). (Alternate to B. F. Ruggles) Gary W. Schmiedel, Oshkosh Truck Corp. Part II of this Report has also been submitted (Alternate to D. Lanzdorf~ to letter ballot of 'the Correlating Committee on Ronald T. Strong, Atlanta Fire Bureau Aviation which consi:~ts of 9 voting members; of Rep. IAFC whom all 9 voted aFfirmatively.. (Alternate to P. Funk) Miles R. Suchomel, Underwriters t.aboratories Inc. • (Alternate to UL Rep) j/ PART I (d) Fueling normally involves delivery by pressure and defueling utilizes gravity flow from underwing 402M- l - (2-4.5 and 2-4.6 (New)): Accept orifices when the aircraft is on its wheels, Inverted SUBMITTER: Technical Committee on Aircraft Rescue and aircraft or those on their bellies do not offer the Fire Fighting benefits of gravity flow. This technical problem is RECOMMENDATION: Add the following new'paragraphs to compounded by the fact that most fueling vehicles can section 2-4 Communications. not "llft" fuel be suction in the same way as fire 2-4.5 Experiencefrom recent accidents has shown vehicles "lift" water from a ground level reservoir up that the use of automated voice notification systems into their water tanks. greatly facilitates emergency response/mutual aid SUBSTANTIATION: The Committee felt a need to clarify notification. the problems associated with defueling. This is in 2-4.6 The use of cellular telephones in ambulances, response to NTSB Safety Recommendation A-88-143. in supervisory vehicles, and in commahd post vehicles COMMITTEE ACTION: Accept. can provide significant benefits in command and control functions, SUBSTANTIATION: The Committee recognizes the benefits •of using automated voice notification systems for (Log # I0) emergency response/mutual aid notifications. This is 402M- 4 - (Chapter 13, 13-4.6): Accept in Principle" in response to NTSB Safety Recommendation A-89-]33. SUBMITTER: Charles T. Arena, Arena~ DerHohannesian & COMMITTEE ACTION: Accept. Assoc. RECOMMENDATION: Add the following paragraph at the end of section 13-4.6: Cribbing and shoring material should be unpainted and (Log # 11) of hardwood so as not easily compressed, should be 402M- 2 - (7-4.1): Accept in Principle available and included in the airport's fire fighting SUBMITTER: Charles T. Arena, Arena, DerHohannesian & plan. It should be of appropriate thickness and length Assoc. to accommodate the largest aircraft scheduled into the RECOMMENDATION: Add new text to 7-4.1 as follows: airport. "Aircraft Recovery Manuals" should be used as Airport ARFF training programs should include methods references to ascertain cribbing sizes for for ARFF personnel to be trained for a situation that stabilization purposes. involves an aircraft in an inverted position. Such SUBSTANTIATION: Both the Continental/Denver and training should include - if possible - the simulation United/Sioux City accidents required the need for of an inverted aircraft, as well as crash charts that cribbin~ to shore-up/stabilize the aircraft, but was depict - in plan view - the entire undersides of the not ava~lable either in sufficient sizes or quantity. various aircraft using the airport. Too, in the case of the Denver accident~ the cribbing SUBSTANTIATION: Airport ARFF crews are adequately used waspainted (making it slippery due to wet trained in dealing with aircraft in an upright conditions) and of soft wood (allowing it to be position. However, little or no training is provided compressed due to the aircraft's weight). in dealing with an aircraft in an inverted attitude. COMMITTEE ACTION: Accept in Principle. Therefore, ARFF personnel should be provided such Add the following new paragraphs: training by having it included into their training 13-4.6,1 Experiencehas shown that cribbing and program. (This would necessitate the need for the shoring materialshould be unpainted to avoid the aircraft manufacturers to generate new crash charts inherent slipperiness of painted surfaces when wet and depicting the aircraft's underside in plan view as should be made of hard wood so as not to be easily rescue personnel would be viewing an inverted compressed. It should be available and included as a aircraft. The plan view would display the location of resource in the airport's emergency preparedness plan. all the"elements", such as undercarriage, fuel It should be of appropriate thickness and length to tank(s), etc.) accommodate the largest aircraft scheduled into the COMMITTEE ACTION: Accept in Principle. airport. "Aircraft Recovery Manuals" should be used to Add the following text to the end of existing ascertain appropriate cribbing sizes. paragraph 7-4.1: 13-4.6.2 It should be noted that the training of Airport rescue and fire fighter personnel training ARFF personnel to shore unstable aircraft wreckage to programs should include a discussion of methods to be facilitate rescue implies the provision of suitable used for a situation that involves an aircraft in an materials. To be effective these materials must be inverted position. Such training should include crash constantly available for immediate deployment. To charts that depict, in plan view, the entire underside achieve this, the materials must be stored either in a of the various aircraft using the airport. alletized form, (requiring ready access to appropriate COMMITTEE STATEMENT: Editorial Clarification. ~ ifting and transport equipmeht) or on a dedicated vehicle, such as a trailer. In either case, a designated responder must be capable of deploying these supplies at all times, under all conditions of weather, 402M- 3 - (11-6.1.1"and 11-6.1.2 (New)): Accept visibility and adverse terrain.