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An Aircraft Incident Management Procedure (
Dutch Dutch commonly refers to: * Something of, from, or related to the Netherlands * Dutch people () * Dutch language () Dutch may also refer to: Places * Dutch, West Virginia, a community in the United States * Pennsylvania Dutch Country People E ...
: ''Vliegtuigongevalscenario'' or ''VOS'') is a Dutch standard Incident Management Procedure for incidents at or near
airport An airport is an aerodrome with extended facilities, mostly for commercial air transport. Airports usually consists of a landing area, which comprises an aerially accessible open space including at least one operationally active surface ...
s involving one or more aircraft. This is the aviation specific Coordinated Regional Incident Management Procedure or CRIMP (Dutch: ''Gecoördineerde Regionale Incidentbestrijdings Procedure'') or GRIP. A VOS arranges the amount of
emergency services Emergency services and rescue services are organizations that ensure public safety and health by addressing and resolving different emergencies. Some of these agencies exist solely for addressing certain types of emergencies, while others deal wit ...
and support by air-side and/or land-side operations of the airport. There are some small differences in naming the VOS at the respective airports in the Netherlands, but the incident management is generally the same.


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Amsterdam Airport Schiphol Amsterdam Airport Schiphol , known informally as Schiphol Airport ( nl, Luchthaven Schiphol, ), is the main international airport of the Netherlands. It is located southwest of Amsterdam, in the municipality of Haarlemmermeer in the province ...
there are seven stages of aircraft incident management: VOS 1 to VOS 7. In this case ''VOS'' means Vliegtuig Ongeval Schiphol (Schiphol Aircraft Incident Procedure). The number designates the complexity of the alarm generated by the aircraft captain or first officer. The GRIP number gives the corresponding CRIMP level by the national emergency services (police, fire and rescue and ambulance services) {, class="wikitable" , - ! VOS # !! Emergency situation !! corresponding GRIP level , - , 1 , ,
Pan-pan The radiotelephony message PAN-PAN is the international standard urgency signal that someone aboard a boat, ship, aircraft, or other vehicle uses to declare that they have a situation that is urgent, but for the time being, does not pose an immed ...
call, a general warning issued by the captain or first officer that there is something wrong , , No corresponding GRIP level , - , 2 , ,
Mayday Mayday is an emergency procedure word used internationally as a distress signal in voice-procedure radio communications. It is used to signal a life-threatening emergency primarily by aviators and mariners, but in some countries local organiza ...
call, less than 50 people on board (pob) , , GRIP 2 , - , 3 , , Mayday call 50-250 pob , , GRIP 2 , - , 4 , , Mayday call 250 or more pob , , GRIP 2 , - , 5 , ,
Crash Crash or CRASH may refer to: Common meanings * Collision, an impact between two or more objects * Crash (computing), a condition where a program ceases to respond * Cardiac arrest, a medical condition in which the heart stops beating * Couch su ...
call, less than 50 pob , , GRIP 3 , - , 6 , , Crash call, 50-250 pob , , GRIP 3 , - , 7 , , Crash call, 250 or more pob, , GRIP 3 Emergency management in the Netherlands Incident management