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.
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.