US fighters conduct drill escorting 'suspect' cargo aircraft in Alaska
2012 04 27
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TWO US Air Force fighters are taking part in the joint multi-disciplined Exercise Arctic Fencing Interagency (AFI) Arrow 12 near Alaska's Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport.
Participating agencies include the Alaskan North American Aerospace Defence Region (ANR), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport police and fire departments, as well as the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), Anchorage Police and Alaska State Troopers. Northern Air Cargo (NAC) provides the cargo flight in the exercise.
The scenario-based exercise will include the live escort of a cargo aircraft by two fighter aircraft deployed to Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson (JBER) into TSAIA. Additionally, emergency response apparatus and personnel will be on scene at the NAC ramp.
The exercise is designed to hone Ant's intercept and identification operations and handoff procedures of a "track of interest" to state and federal law enforcement/emergency response personnel and their ability to conduct response procedures to an on-board threat.
As part of the exercise, the cargo aircraft will be identified as a track of interest. ANR will then scramble the fighters. After the track of interest is escorted to a landing at TSAIA, the scenario shifts to the terminal at the NAC side of the airport ramp, where law enforcement/emergency response personnel will respond to the situation and conduct the necessary procedures to resolve the threat.
This is the second Exercise AFI-Arrow. The first, in May 2010, involved an Air Force KC-135 as the track of interest and FBI and the Federal Air Marshal Service - who responded to the on-board threat while the aircraft was airborne - conducting response operations at JBER.
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