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An exercise which saw all of the island's emergency services come together to prepare for what would happen if something major went wrong with a passenger aircraft has been a success.
The training took place at Guernsey Airport on Sunday, and saw St John Ambulance, Guernsey Police, the Fire Service, the Airport Fire Service, Civil Protection and more all involved.
Operation Raven was designed to test and simulate the airport's emergency response.
The Head of Aviation Services at the Airport told Express it was very successful.
Pictured: The Airport Fire Service dispatched three of its vehicles for Operation Raven.
"Operation Raven was a successful exercise for Guernsey Airport, other blue light responders and third party agencies to take part in. It provided a good opportunity to test our policies and procedures which will be put in action if an incident involving aircraft does occur," he said.
"There were a number of useful learning points for Guernsey Airport following the exercise and these will be considered together with a de-brief under the JESIP principals in the following weeks. It was pleasing to see all of the agencies and emergency services work collaboratively together to test their plans in the event of an aircraft incident happening and we take this opportunity to thank all participants for giving up their valuable time on a Sunday morning to engage and work with the airport to undertake the exercise.”
Guernsey Airport also thanked the co-operation and assistance of airline staff during the training exercise, and for helping to accommodate it.
There were some delays to flights on the Sunday while the Operation took place.
Pictured top: St John worked with the Fire & Rescue Service and Police during the exercise (image from St John's Facebook page).
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