A-Dub 🥝2d ago

the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration says all of its airport vehicles will be equipped with VMAT tech to help air-traffic controllers track them, motivated by the deadly crash between an Air Canada jet and an ARFF vehicle at LaGuardia in March.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/transponders-airport-vehicles-air-canada-laguardia-crash-9.7198540

#Aviation #AC8646

FAA adding transponders to all its airport vehicles after LaGuardia runway crash | CBC News

The agency in charge of aviation safety in the U.S. says all of its airport vehicles will be equipped with technology to help air-traffic controllers track their movements, a move expedited by the deadly crash in March involving an Air Canada jet at New York's LaGuardia Airport.

CBC
A-Dub 🥝Apr 29

it comes too late for Air Canada Express pilots Antoine Forest, 30, Mackenzie Gunther, 24, but LaGuardia airport is installing ASDE-X transponders on fire and rescue vehicles that could help prevent future aviation tragedies

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/ntsb-laguardia-air-canada-crash-transponders-9.7181799

#Aviation #AC8646 #LGA

Trackers for emergency vehicles on runways to be installed at New York area airports after deadly crash | CBC News

Transponders that might have helped pinpoint the location of a fire truck that collided with a landing Air Canada jet in New York will soon be installed on ground vehicles at the region's three major airports.

CBC
A-Dub 🥝Apr 1
every time i read another article about the #AC8646 crash into an ARFF truck at #LGA i can't help thinking about how the two young Air Canada pilots may have chosen to take that impact *squarely head-on* (knowing they would probably not survive) to avoid the truck wreckage shearing off a wing with fuel in its tank that could trigger a fire engulfing the passengers. maybe they should get posthumous bravery awards?
A-Dub 🥝Mar 28

the U.S. air traffic control system has been chronically understaffed for some years now. this may be one of the contributing factors in Air Canada flight 8646's crash into a fire truck at LaGuardia which killed both pilots. the NTSB investigation will decide if it was.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/laguardia-airport-air-traffic-control-midnight-shift-9.7142856

#Aviation #AC8646

ANALYSIS | Were 2 enough? Experts question number of air traffic controllers during LaGuardia midnight shift | CBC News

Following the deadly collision between an Air Canada jet and a fire truck on the runway at New York City's LaGuardia airport last week, concerns have been raised about whether there was adequate air traffic control staffing that night.

CBC
Francisca SinnMar 23

“the controller working that tower last night was, by every account I’ve heard, a respected professional…

The system that put him in that position— alone, managing complexity that was multiplying faster than any single human brain can track— that system failed him too. And it failed the two pilots who didn’t come home this morning.

We owe it to all of them to say so clearly, and then to actually do something about it.“

#AC8646 #JAZZ646 #LaGuardia #AirTrafficController
https://open.substack.com/pub/adamkinzinger/p/the-laguardia-crash-will-be-blamed?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

The LaGuardia Crash Will Be Blamed on One Controller. That's Not the Whole Story.

3,000 controllers short. WWII-era radar still in use. And a lone controller managing two emergencies at midnight. This was preventable.

Adam Kinzinger
Show threadFrancisca SinnMar 23

@CStamp The Guardian reports further detail:

“In the moments before the crash, an air traffic controller could be heard on a radio transmission giving clearance to a vehicle to cross part of the runway, then trying to stop it.

“Stop, Truck 1. Stop,” the transmission says. The controller can then be heard quickly diverting incoming aircraft from landing.“

Horrific and heartbreaking all around.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/23/air-canada-plane-collides-with-ground-vehicle-at-new-yorks-laguardia-airport-halting-all-flights

#Canada #AC8646 #AirCanada #LaGuardia

Two pilots killed after Air Canada jet collision at LaGuardia in New York

NTSB says investigation under way as nine people remain hospitalized after plane hit fire tuck on runway

The Guardian
Ed W8EMV Mar 23

@HopelessDemigod

Wikipedia has a story up. Very sad.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Canada_Flight_8646

#aviation #avgeek #ac8646

Air Canada Flight 8646 - Wikipedia