After the earthquake in Ya'an, Sichuan, many airlines took the initiative and assembled a number of airplanes ready to participate in the rescue, however, due to the lack of unified planning and deployment by various agencies, civil aviation activities faced airspace restrictions, and most of the aircraft were forced to stand by in place. Only two to three civil aviation planes entered Ya'an Lushan to carry out the rescue, which is almost the same problem encountered after the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake.
At present, the domestic aviation emergency rescue force mainly consists of the army, police aviation of the Ministry of Public Security, the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the Civil Aviation Administration, and the Rescue and Salvage Bureau of the Ministry of Transportation.
The military has not liberalized airspace control because of the respective chains of command of the State Council and the Central Military Commission, and the military may also have its own considerations. After the Wenchuan earthquake, the industry had called for the State Council and the Central Military Commission to jointly form an emergency response leadership group, but progress was slow, he said.
So, in the Sichuan Ya'an Lushan earthquake aircraft rescue, encountered a series of problems, first of all, the lack of unified planning, unified deployment and integrated coordination between the various agencies; secondly, although the various airlines in the disaster occurred at the first time of the first time of the emergency assembly, but the lack of disaster emergency rescue plan, but due to civil aviation by the airspace limitations, into the rescue of the Lushan only 2 to 3 aircraft. Third, the small size of the general aviation fleet, lack of capacity, lack of trained crews and outdated infrastructure highlight China's lack of aviation emergency rescue capabilities when dealing with disasters.
The best solution is to speed up airspace reform, to fully develop and effectively utilize airspace resources, to create an airspace management environment that is suitable for the harmonious development of air transportation, general aviation and military aviation, to coordinate the airspace needs of the civil and military sectors, and to accelerate the transformation of airspace management. Strengthen the coordination of military and civil aviation, and improve the mechanism of dynamic and flexible use of airspace.