Emergency exercise for air disaster

Malta International Airport and other entities are today holding a full-scale emergency exercise to rehearse for an air disaster.

"This is an exercise on a national scale and therefore the public should not be alarmed when it sees on the public roads unusual movements of a number of emergency vehicles, which include police cars, ambulances and civil protection vehicles," the Department of Information said.

The following organisations will take part in the exercise: Malta International Airport; Malta Air Traffic Services; Health Department; Air Malta; Civil Protection Department; Armed Forces of Malta; Malta Police; Airline Operators; Department of Information; and other private agencies.

The airport has asked the public to collaborate and not hinder emergency vehicles or obstruct the roads in which the vehicles need to manoeuvre or where the emergency operations are taking place.