US EditionAviation experts to probe Air Canada flight after fatal crash at LaGuardia Airport
Two pilots died and about 40 passengers and crew were injured after an Air Canada Express jet collided with a fire truck on an active runway at LaGuardia Airport.
- On Sunday night, Air Canada Express Flight AC8646 collided with a Port Authority fire truck at LaGuardia Airport in New York, killing two pilots and injuring dozens of the 72 passengers and four crew members aboard.
- Audio recordings reveal a controller initially cleared the fire truck to cross the runway while responding to a separate odor incident on a United Airlines flight. Seconds later, the controller repeatedly shouted for "Truck 1" to stop before the collision occurred.
- Investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board are probing the crash, noting the controller was managing another emergency during the incident. Forty-one people were taken to hospitals in Queens, with nine remaining in care as of Monday morning.
- Air Canada confirmed the deaths of captain Antoine Forest and first officer Mackenzie Gunther, calling the loss "deeply saddening." The airline is working closely with U.S. authorities as the investigation continues.
- Aviation expert Julian Kheel warned that nationwide air traffic controller shortages leave a smaller margin of error for controllers managing increasingly congested skies. The incident has reignited concerns over limited staffing at major U.S. airports.
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On Sunday evening, on a runway at the New York airport in LaGuardia, a plane collided with a firefighter's vehicle, killing the pilot and co-pilot of the aircraft and causing dozens of injuries. TF1's 20H broadcast the exchange, which occurred just before the fatal shock, between the control tower and the occupants of the firefighter's vehicle. - "You can cross the runway": what the control tower said before the fatal accident at LaGuardia airpo…
Pilots reported LaGuardia safety concerns before fatal Air Canada crash: ‘Please do something’
Pilots reported safety concerns about LaGuardia airport to aviation officials before the Air Canada crash that left 2 dead and saw 41 hospitalized. One pilot raised two safety concerns before warning “on thunderstorm days, LGA is starting to feel like DCA [Ronald Reagan Washington National…
The Toronto Star
Aviation experts to probe Air Canada flight after fatal crash at LaGuardia Airport
NEW YORK - American aviation experts have arrived in New York City to probe how an Air Canada flight from Montreal crash-landed at LaGuardia Airport, killing its two pilots and injuring many others.
By Blake Ellis and Melanie Hicken, CNN. According to a CNN review of government records over the past two years, many pilots have expressed concern about miscommunication, air traffic control errors, and other hazards at LaGuardia Airport. “Please do something,” one pilot wrote last summer in one of at least a dozen reports about LaGuardia to NASA’s Air Safety Reporting System. The pilot cited an incident in which air traffic controllers failed …
One of the things the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) will analyze is the controller's workload and their level of situational awareness.
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