i feel so bad for that air traffic control guy who made the mistake at La Guardia. it wasn't his fault, it's a shitty system and he was given an impossible task. just a horrible, horrible situation, caused deliberately by the motherfuckers in charge of the federal government.
a bunch of dedicated, hardworking people died because the fucking Republicans didn't see fit to fund safe air travel, even as they spend billions and billions of our tax dollars lobbing missiles at Iran.
(there's no way that crew or the firefighters in that truck survived. plane t-bones a firetruck going 120mph, it's amazing it wasn't worse.)
@peter I hope it remains that way, but the fire truck was likely built for collisions that the aircraft was not