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 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
Show threadRootWyrm 🇺🇦

@fsinn @CStamp the worst part is it was all entirely avoidable. I don't know if the 3,500 short number on ATC is open positions that will never be filled or the number that have called out.

But I do know that an ATC who is married with one child, after a year of basically paying for their own mandatory training due to the ridiculously inadequate stipends, will be paid so little they qualify for food stamps.

Mar 23 at 3:56pmWeb
Show threadCarolynMar 23

@rootwyrm @fsinn Yeah, the ATC absolutely made a mistake, but over the next days we’ll learn more about any contributing factors.

This should be a highly-paid job.