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Parallel Planning, Local Solutions: Four Newfoundland Airports Deal Diverted Flights after 9/11
Author(s) -
Scanlon Joseph
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
journal of contingencies and crisis management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.007
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1468-5973
pISSN - 0966-0879
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-5973.2012.00669.x
Subject(s) - plan (archaeology) , terrorism , space (punctuation) , emergency evacuation , geography , operations research , business , operations management , political science , aeronautics , engineering , computer science , meteorology , archaeology , operating system
On September 11, 2001, after a series of terrorist attacks, the USA closed its air space while scores of flights were over the North Atlantic. As a result many of those flights were forced to land in Canada: 88 flights carrying approximately 12,000 people landed at four Newfoundland airports – meaning that four communities with parallel plans faced the same emergency at the same on the same day providing a unique opportunity for a comparative study. As it happened all four handled the emergency effectively but each did it in its own way starting with a plan but adapting the plan to local circumstances.