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Wichita airport plans disaster exercise

Wichita airportWICHITA, Kan. (AP) — The Wichita Airport Authority is planning a large-scale disaster exercise featuring the mock crash of a 737 aircraft.

Tuesday’s exercise begins at 9 a.m. and will be located just north of Kansas 42 between two runways at the Wichita airport. It is expected to include 300 people from various emergency management agencies.

The Federal Aviation Administration requires commercial airports to practice responding to simulated disasters at least every three years.

Airport officials will provide information to the public using the Twitter handle @FlyICT and #ICTdrill.

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