WICHITA, Kansas, September 3, 2008 – Emergency crews from across Wichita responded Wednesday to a large military plane crash. The smoke, sirens and multiple victims were all a part of a large-scale emergency drill.

A large military cargo aircraft crashes into Plainview Park after being hit by a small plane over Kellogg. It’s a drill, but there’s fire, a huge crash scene and multiple victims.

I've just got a headache, I don't know where I was, I think there was some kind of an aircraft problem,” said drill victim John Day.

As an additional twist, the plane was a C-17 made of composites – a material now becoming more common in manufacturing airplanes.

"The things that we use when they burn they sometimes put off some strange materials carbon fibers things like that which are not necessarily hazardous in large distances away, they can be hazardous to those first responders as they come on the scene,” said Major Mike Rambo with McConnell Air Force Base.

Those first responders include everyone from 911 dispatchers, firefighters, hospital personnel and the Red Cross. The full-scale re-enactment is made to look and feel as realistic as possible in order to train and test first responders for an emergency they hope to never work for real.

"If this scenario would ever take place in the city, it would be overwhelming to our system,” said Capt. Brad Boyd with the Wichita Fire Department. “And by practicing if we came up with some way or some idea of how we were gonna handle the situation we would be able to control it."

Over the next two and a half weeks agencies will compile data in what the military calls a “hot wash,” which is an information session to discuss what they learned.