On Wednesday, 12th June 2019, a traditional three-day crisis response exercise called Broken Wing 2019 took place at the Aviation Academy’s training field at Ljubljana Airport. The main purpose of the exercise was to check the response and coordination of all the involved actors in the event of an aircraft accident involving both civilians and military personnel.
Broken Wing was organized by the Aircraft Accident and Incident Investigation Board of the Ministry of Defence, in coordination with the General Police Directorate, the Administration of the Republic of Slovenia for Civil Protection and Disaster Relief, the Criminal Police Directorate, the National Forensic Laboratory, the Faculty of Organizational Sciences, and Fraport Slovenija. More than 70 members of various organizations took part in the exercise, including guests from international aircraft accident and incident investigation authorities from the USA, the United Kingdom, Austria, Hungary, France and Germany.