NEW YORK (AP) — An Air Canada jet carrying more than 70 passengers collided with a fire truck while landing at New York’s LaGuardia Airport late Sunday, killing the pilot and copilot and injuring several others, officials said.
The impact severed the cockpit, and hurled a flight attendant — still secured to her seat — far from the site of the crash, her daughter told a Canadian TV station. The flight attendant survived.
The fire truck was crossing the tarmac just before midnight after being given permission to check on another plane reporting an odor onboard. Before the collision, an air traffic controller can be heard on airport communications frantically telling the fire truck to stop.
“Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said LaGuardia is “well-staffed” but faces a shortage of controllers.”
These ppl will kill us all of we let them
Yikes. Crazy to think about this happening and at the same time crazy to think about things like this not happening more often.
Giving a fire truck permission to cross while a plane is incoming is incredibly stupid. One of those “one job” moments.
blaming the ATC is a shitty thing to do here, friend.
in a job that requires you to be ‘always on’, these poor fucks are overworked and understaffed. its a miracle there aren’t more of these accidents.
This is what happens when you land in the US. Don’t fly to the US
I have a dream. It’s not a big dream, it’s just a little dream. My dream - and I hope you don’t find this too crazy - is that I would like the people of this community to feel that if, God forbid, there were a fire, calling the fire department would actually be a wise thing to do. You can’t have people, if their houses are burning down, saying, “Whatever you do, don’t call the fire department!” That would be bad.
Is that how planes sit down
When they don’t have wings or wheels, yes.
