DFW Airport Public Safety maintains a complement of eight Oshkosh Striker 4500’s, two of which are equipped with the 65’ Snozzle, writes Alan Black, Head of Public Protection at Dallas Fort Worth

The Striker 4500 is the largest of the Oshkosh ARFF Apparatus providing DFW with state of the art ARFF response around the clock. The apparatus measures 11’4” to the top of the handrail and 45’3” from front to back. The drive engine delivers 950 BHP at 2100 RPM with over 2400 Ft. lbs of torque. What that means to the operator is that each day, every day, with clockwork precision, the Striker with its Caterpillar C-18, four Stroke, six cylinder engine will deliver a 116,000 pound load at speeds up to 65 mph, with an acceleration rate of 0 - 50 in just under 35 seconds. There isn’t anything subtle about driving the Striker either. This truck is designed to handle all kinds of terrain from flat highways to rolling hills and rough surfaces.

BMI implements new commander and cascade systems 

London Heathrow’s second largest airline, bmi, has implemented a new incident management and alert notification system at its Emergency Response Centre at London Heathrow and its Operations Control Centre at Donington Hall, Derby. The system will be used by between ten and 25 staff, to help manage and control the company’s complete incident management and emergency response process. 

A major disaster appears to have been averted after a Jetstream 41 ditched in school fields, breaking into three pieces, in South Africa

 

At 08:00hrs local time, a Jetstream 41 operated by SA Airlink, declared an emergency shortly after take-off from Durban International Airport en-route to Pietermaritzburg in South Africa. Other pilots and air traffic controllers reported seeing smoke coming from one of the plane’s engines, before the crew of the 29-seat aircraft declared an emergency, reporting engine loss and smoke from the rear of the aircraft before it ditched in school fields approximately 400 metres off the airport and broke into three pieces.

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