What are the local risks?
Major aviation incidents
Aviation incidents of the scale described in the Community Risk Register are rare in the United Kingdom. Because of the potential impact various agencies in Bedfordshire and Luton have developed plans to deal with them, and have trained in, exercised and reviewed those plans continually for many years; they will go on working to achieve an efficient, correct and co-ordinated response. A wide range of scenarios have been tested.
If such an incident does occur in Bedfordshire and Luton, you should follow the guidelines in the Preparing for Emergencies leaflet or see www.pfe.gov.uk.
Movements of aircraft over a certain tonnage are strictly controlled and they are permitted to use only classified airports such as London Luton. Lighter aircraft can fly out of smaller airfields; either commercial airfield sites like Cranfield or privately owned sites such as Meppershall or Old Warden. The airspace industry is among the most tightly regulated regimes in the world.
Every 1.7 seconds a plane takes off somewhere in the world and over a year this equates to 1.09 billion passengers. Statistically, you would have to fly continuously for 20,000 years before experiencing a crash – making planes 22 to 40 times safer than driving your car.
To learn more about local plans in place to respond to this hazard click here.
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