SAR
Technology Consultation - Aircraft Crash-Maps
Crash-Map Service for Missing Aircraft
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Crashed Helicopter |
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Crashed Light Aircraft |
Searches
for missing aircraft are often very challenging. Large search areas, few clues,
bad weather and the lack of a flight plan often create significant difficulties
for the air-search. When there has been no beacon transmission the Search
Master may have to rely on airport records, radio logs and radar tracks to help
estimate the last probable location of the aircraft. Under these conditions
negative information, i.e. the aircraft did not pass into a certain location,
may also be used to help determine the search area.
Most
initial responses for the missing aircraft will typically involve flying the
predicted flight path of the aircraft, followed by increasingly detailed
searching in high probability areas. Unfortunately the probability of detecting
the crashed aircraft over land is often fairly low. When combined
with the very large areas to be covered – often hundreds of square miles –
the result may be a very prolonged search, frequently utilizing numerous
aircraft for a great many days.
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Calculated Crash-Landing Locations and Escape Routes |
Where a Last Probable Position can be
estimated a
calculated ‘Crash Map’ of the potential search areas can be rapidly created. This ‘Crash Map’ is based
on the aerodynamic properties of the aircraft, the weather and on the terrain features beneath the aircraft. With this information
the detailed ’Crash Map’ identifies potential crash
sites within the maximum range of both
fixed-wing and rotary-wing aircraft.
With the unique
capability to create Crash Maps for both fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters this valuable service
may be used for the vast
majority of air-search incidents.
With powerful 3D imagery, World-Wide response
capability and fast turn-around, calculated Aircraft Crash Maps can now be
rapidly delivered to organizations and individuals, virtually anywhere in the world.
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Aircraft 'Crash Map' |
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Calculated Aircraft 'Crash Map' with Potential Impact Sites |
The calculated ‘Crash Map’ identifies potential crash locations for
both powered and un-powered aircraft:
Powered Aircraft
Powered Aircraft - flying
at a level altitude.
Powered Aircraft - climbing in elevation.
Powered Aircraft - descending in elevation.
Un-Powered Aircraft
Un-Powered Aircraft - flying with significant loss of control.
Un-Powered Aircraft - flying with moderate loss of control.
Un-Powered Aircraft - flying with full pilot control.
The
‘Crash Map’ also identifies Height-of-Land
potential crash locations, delineating all
heights of land that would cause an impact with the aircraft.
Potential 'Escape Routes' for a pilot trying to avoid heights of land.
Identifying potential
height-of-land crash locations can very significantly reduce the size of the
theoretical search area, permitting search resources to focus more on these
potential crash locations. This can provide major benefits to the search
effort, permitting both air assets and mechanized ground resources to search
these specific ground locations, often with a significantly increased local
probability of detection.
SAR
Technology Inc. is pleased to provide the Aircraft ‘Crash Map’ Service for requesting organizations and
individuals.
These maps
can be delivered as either
simple KML files for immediate display in Google Earth, Bing Maps etc., or as detailed, geo-referenced
maps for display within ‘Incident Commander Pro’ or other standard GIS
applications.
For more information
on the Aircraft 'Crash Map' Service
please contact SAR
Technology Inc.
SAR
Technology Inc.
5268 Sprucefeild Road, West Vancouver
B.C., Canada V7W 2X6
Phone:
(604) 590-7419 / (604) 921-2488 
Fax (604) 921-2484
Supporting
the Air-Search Mission - with ‘Incident
Commander Pro’
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