CarolynMar 23

Pilots dead, a stewardess ejected onto the runway, that leaves 1 of 4 crew possibly able to help passengers. The stories we hear later are likely to be of chaos.

The air traffic controller. The guilt.

Hopefully no more than 2 dead. Earlier reports only focused on the critically injured people in the fire truck and we don’t know the status of passengers still in the hospital.

Should’ve been a milk run. Awful.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/air-canada-express-accident-la-guardia-airport-9.7138206

Air traffic controller heard telling truck to stop moments before deadly Air Canada crash | CBC News

Moments before an Air Canada plane collided with a ground vehicle at New York's LaGuardia Airport — killing two of its pilots — an air traffic controller is heard on the radio urgently telling the fire truck to stop and not cross the runway, using the word "stop" at least ten times.

CBC
Show threadRightSprung will not complyMar 23
@CStamp with all this administration's cuts to the federal service, and especially ATC I would not fly to, through or near the US right now.
Show threadCarolynMar 23
@rightsprung Yeah, so many reasons to avoid that country. I was reading somewhere that the air traffic controllers weren’t affected by the current situation, but I guess we’ll hear more about that later. Whether they still have shortages of staff that might’ve contributed to this? These folk should not be overworked.
Show threadRightSprung will not complyMar 23

@CStamp

For sure. I would hope that most services were unaffected. Its not the kind of thing you can underfund....

Show threadCarolyn
@rightsprung Well, not the thing one SHOULD underfund.
Mar 23 at 3:52pmWeb