Originally Posted by
rickair7777
Who's going to pay for that? It's no different than any natural disaster or other calamity...it takes time for large numbers of responders to arrive.
Why not just mandate that every 121 airport has a fully-staffed hospital on-site with enough operating rooms and ICU beds to accommodate ever pax on the largest aircraft which serves the airport?
Cost of any on-site first response large enough handle a 747 (or A380) crash is impossible.
Through my career I have worked closely with several airport fire departments in the US in various disciplines (SCBA, Atmospheric Monitoring and Personnel Accountability).
Generally the airports are well equipped to handle the fire aspect of a disaster, but not large volume survivor rescue and as such rely on mutual aid from surrounding departments.
Several years ago a proposal was made at a large US airport to train airline ground personal to be qualified to assist in rescue and the cost would be as little as the cost of training, a few transport vehicles and associated equipment.
That proposal was squashed in no time by the unions.