Re: Air CanaDUH Plane Collides with Firetruck at LaGuardia Airport

Mar 23, 2026 Last reply: 6 months ago 1 Replies

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Snag 6 months ago

A plane collided with a vehicle at New York’s LaGuardia Airport on

> Sunday evening.
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> According to reports, an Air Canada plane, operated by Jazz Airlines
> (known for its high diversity quotas), collided with a firetruck on the
> tarmac.
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> Emergency vehicles responded as passengers were evacuated from the plane.
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> The airport is now closed.
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> They don't call 'em Jizz Airlines for nothing.
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Get your facts straight . That truck pulled out directly into the plane's path - no chance to avoid . The fire truck driver was given the OK to go by controller .

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Clare Snyder 6 months ago

It also appears the air traffic controller was pulling double duty as ground traffic controller at the same time and had directed the firetruck to respond to another plane with smoke or overheat odors in the cabin, clearing it to cross runway 4 - then recinding that clearance when he figured out a colission was likely. He ordered the firetruck to stop numerous times but either the firetruck driver did not hear, disregarded the command, or was unable to stop the speeding extremely heavy vehicle on time, resulting in the incident. It is also highly likely, judging from other reports, that the controller may have been pulling a second shift (as 6 days out of 7 and mandatory overtime is REQUIRED of all ATC personell due to a very critical shortage of ATC personell country wide.)

Those of us in the aviation community have known for some time it was not a question of IF something like this would happen, but when. After over 16 years without an incident in the USA there have been three now already this year.

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