mememememememo5d ago

Plane and ground vehicle collide at New York's LaGuardia airport halting flights

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy01g522ww4o

Two pilots dead after plane and ground vehicle collide at New York's LaGuardia Airport

The plane, arriving from Montreal, collided with a firefighting vehicle responding to a separate incident.

Show threadbilekas
That's a huge amount of damage even at 24mph. It's crazy how that could happen though. Will be interesting to see the full report.
Mar 23 at 8:25amWeb
Show threadwhycome5d ago

Very unlikely it was 24mph…The entire cockpit is gone.

(Though some of the major damage may have happened while deplaning the passengers)

Show threadEkaros5d ago
On other hand planes are really not designed to be crashed into things. Only for limited impacts. So we might not have right comparison for relatively thin and aimed to be light structure being impacted by bulkier object.
Show threadhiddendoom455d ago

It looks like that is based on the last recorded speed from flightradar24[1] which was 21kts(24mph). The previous data points were 11kts, and 58 kts(the last point before the track deviates off the runway). I do think it is likely that the collision occurred at a speed faster than 24mph.

edit: Looking into this a bit more it looks like the plane came to a stop around crossing E while the emergency vehicle was crossing at D(based on ATC recordings). Using the following map as reference[2], the 58kts point was around E, while the previous recorded point which was just before D was 114kts.

[1] https://www.flightradar24.com/data/flights/ac8646#3ede6c39

[2] https://www.flightaware.com/resources/airport/LGA/APD/AIRPOR...

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