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tate-owned airport operator PT Angkasa Pura I conducted its first-ever emergency response simulation in Ahmad Yani Airport’s newest terminal in Semarang, Central Java.

The simulation, conducted on Thursday night, was aimed at training airport staff on nighttime emergency situations in the terminal.

There were three exercises in the simulation, namely a fire-building exercise, an aviation security exercise and an aircraft accident exercise.

“The situation was designed to imitate possible real-life conditions with deaths, injuries and other possible outcomes that could occur during an emergency so they could be handled according to the Airport Emergency Document, the Airport Security Program Document and standard operating procedures,” PT Angkasa Pura I operational director Wendo Asrul Rose said at Ahmad Yani Airport on Thursday.

The emergency drill was the fourth this year after Surabaya’s Juanda Airport in East Java, Balikpapan’s SAMS Sepinggan Airport in East Kalimantan and Manado’s Sam Ratulangi Airport in North Sulawesi.

The airport’s management also launched a smartphone app called ECIS, short for Emergency Call Information System, to notify the airport emergency committee of an emergency so it could be handled as quickly as possible.