LJUBLJANA, June 21 (Xinhua) -- An emergency drill was held on Wednesday at Ljubljana Brnik International Airport as Slovenian firefighters and other services respond to a mock on-ground collision of a bomber and an airliner.
According to the Slovenian Press Agency (STA), in the mock collision, a bomber and a small airliner carrying 50 passengers and four crewmembers crashed and caught fire, leaving ten people dead.
Organized by the airport operator Fraport Slovenija and the relevant bodies of the defense and interior ministries, the exercise involved extinguishing the fire, securing the scene, identifying dangerous objects and neutralizing them, identifying victims, and investigating the crash.
Slovenian Ministry of Defense State Secretary, Milos Bizjak, said the drill has been staged for the tenth year, but it was held at Ljubljana airport for the first time.
While such an accident has not happened yet in Slovenia, the relevant services must be prepared, head of the Service for Investigation of Aircraft Accidents and Military Aircraft Incidents Mihael Klavzar said, adding that the number of such cases had been growing in the past decade.
