Nine people hospitalised and airport closed after landing plane hits fire truck responding to separate incident
The pilot and co-pilot of an Air Canada Express regional jet have been killed after it collided with a fire truck while landing at New York’s LaGuardia airport, in an incident that closed the airport.
The collision also caused serious injuries with nine people in hospital. It happened as a firefighting vehicle was responding to a separate incident, according to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which runs the airport.
The Air Canada Express CRJ-900 plane, operated by its partner Jazz Aviation, was carrying 72 passengers and four crew members from Montreal, based on a preliminary passenger list that remained subject to confirmation. Jazz is owned by Chorus Aviation.
Can’t wait to see the reporting on how fucked up their air traffic control system is from Trump’s cuts.
tHeY dOn’T wAnT tO wOrK!! bRiNg In ICE, tHeY cAN dO iT!!
WAY TO GO DOGE.
The cut the second ‘D’ and all of a sudden everything starts colliding.
The controller was working both Tower and Ground frequencies at the time of the collision. At a busy airport like LaGuardia, that’s incredibly unsafe, IMO. Something grabbing his attention on Ground distracted him from this developing situation on his Tower responsibilities, and that’s all it took. He tried to then stop it, but it was too late.
He’s going to live with what happened for the rest of his life. I feel deeply sad for him. It’s not even really his fault. He was put in a situation where any human is likely to fail sooner or later.
The US’s air infrastructure (along with a lot of other infrastructure) has been going downhill since the Reagan administration. The US needs a 2-3x investment in the FAA 10 years or so ago.
I haven’t travelled to the US since Feb 2020, and I’m not going to (even for work) for multiple reasons at this point: the continued deterioration of the FAA’s systems is one major one.
It’s been going downhill BECAUSE of the Reagan assministration.
ATC mistake causes collision killing two pilots and injuring a dozen more.
A dozen more pilots were injured?
Due to airline cutbacks we’re all pilots now.
Maybe the real treasure were the planes we stole along the way.
Thank you doge /s
In fairness to the problem, it’s been going on far longer than that. DOGE certainly didn’t help, but this has been an issue for quite a long time.
They don’t have to pay the TSA agents if the airport is closed!
taps head meme
I wonder how much before they deem USA too unsafe to operate in.
“After” seems like the wrong preposition in the headline. Feels like “killed in” or “died after” would be less confusing. Anyway, sad for the people involved.
After the collision, the wounded passengers murdered the pilots for their mistakes. I don’t know why that’s so ambiguous.
The Air Canada pilots were not at fault.
The air traffic controller directed a firetruck across the runway while the plane was landing.
La Guardia is the most feared airport worldwide by pilots, they function far beyond the capacity it was designed for.
The pilot and copilot died because the single ATC controller was overwhelmed trying to handle two frequencies and an emergency with another plane on the ground. ATC accidentally cleared the fire truck to cross the runway where the plane was landing.
Here’s audio from all of that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pbm-QJAAzNY
You can hear ATC desperately trying to stop the truck.
The dead pilot and copilot did nothing wrong, certainly not from the initial information we have so far.
I can understand trying to be funny, but I really don’t see the humour here. Seems in very very poor taste to me.
I never claimed go have good taste. But seems like a shitty situation all around.
The dead pilot and copilot did nothing wrong
CANADIAN TERRORIST ATTACK.
