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’ll either release a report that shows 1000% improvement in operating efficiency with negative incidents because they can do no wrong, or they’ll never release another report again.
Straight from Leavitt: “Our glorious leader has improved the Air Traffic Control system by 1000% it has never been this safe to fly, ever. We will build a monumental airport in his name. Thank you for your attention in this matter.”
Probably.
Nah, they’ll blame it on the ‘dEmOcRaT sHuTdOwN’ again.
To the honest, no matter how much he fucked it up, it was pretty fucked up in the beginning. That system is ancient iirc.
Yeah, Reagan functionally broke the system and every president and party since then has made tiny tweaks at best, this type of understaffing was common under Biden and Obama as well. Its just hit its breaking point.
Pretending this is a Trump only issue is covering for a whole lot of people who share the blame in addition to Trump.
tHeY dOn’T wAnT tO wOrK!! bRiNg In ICE, tHeY cAN dO iT!!
ICE has now been deployed to airports for some reason.