Situation

• A large number of passengers on multiple flights are being identified with a potentially infectious disease.
• After landing, the aircraft are moved to an isolated area of the airport for quarantine, and passengers and crew are carefully screened.
• Now the attention turns to the contaminated aircraft. Nobody wants another incident like SARS, with the huge economic and social impact of grounding hundreds of flights.
• Incident commanders and national politicians are pressing you to find a way to reassure the public that aircraft are safe and keep the planes flying.
• How do you decontaminate a large number of aircraft, as quickly as possible, to keep the whole air transportation system from going into gridlock?