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.
“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.
I’ve heard it being described as an aircraft carrier due to how tight the runways are.
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.
CANADIAN TERRORIST ATTACK.
Well they could have been alive for a little while and suffered before dying. Then they would have died after the collision. Is that better for you?