As the news is reporting, sadly there was a terrible plane crash at LaGuardia Airport at 23:38 local last night.

A Jazz Aviation CRJ900 was landing and a truck was cleared to cross the runway. There seems to be a breakdown in ground comms because the ATC basically begs the truck to stop but the plane still hit the truck.

Both pilots did not survive. The firefighters did and no reports of passenger fatalities.

My love goes out to the families of the victims.

#ChillyATCAdventures

Audio of the incident
Here is a half assed video I threw together last night to show the flight path of the plane synced with the ATC audio

Actually Victor made the video already here is his

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pbm-QJAAzNY

RADIO AUDIO of Air Canada Plane Crash with Fire Truck at LaGuardia

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And Mentour Pilot did a livestream talking about it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bb4CcoK0KLM

LaGuardia Airport Crash | Pilots React Live

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Video of the actual crash now out. Content warning obviously.
NTSB Press Briefing on the incident
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UieRrg2etdY
Jazz Aviation, Air Canada Express Flight 8646, CRJ900, airplane at LaGuardia Airport in New York NY

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And blancolirio did a video on the crash https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnSGMPaJ2OM
KLGA Fatal Runway Incursion 22 March 2026

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Okay I watched the second NTSB press briefing twice yesterday and have some juicy deets to dish out for you fine folks. Some of this was previously available/self evident but I wanted to wait a bit for the NTSB to do its thing. Here we go  Longer post so maybe bookmark and read later.

  • First off, as the chairwoman succinctly emphasized: If a airline crash happens, many things likely went wrong. Flying is so safe because it has defense in depth built in. I personally would like to say we must resist the very natural desire to focus on "okay, who f'ed up". This is a search for the truth.

  • The controller clearly at least twice told the truck to stop before the crash

  • Two controllers were in the air traffic control tower cab (in layman's terms, the top most part of the tower with windows where the active ATCs oversee things and work) at the time. They had just gone on duty for the "midnight" (22:30-06:30) shift at ~22:30ish local time.

  • There is conflicting information on which air traffic controller was in charge of operations on the ground.

  • The controllers at the time were dealing with another emergency on the ground. So there was a heavy workload on controllers who were also working multiple positions. NTSB cautions about talking about "controller distraction" as they were doing their job.

  • The controllers were doing combined positions since it was the midnight shift. This is the standard operating procedure for a lot of airports, including Newark. (See other #ChillyATCAdventures posts). The chairwoman has concerns about this nationwide common practice and so do I.

  • Conflicting reports on how many certified ATCs were in the facility overall. ATCs are supposed to take periodic breaks and be relieved by another controller.

  • The truck did not have a transponder to report its location. The airport did have airport surface detection equipment (ASDE-X) but the ground radar did not alert since the proximity of multiple ARFF trucks caused the system to have low confidence.

  • The automatic runway status lights were operational and indicated it was not clear to cross the runway

  • Chairwoman Homendy is awesome, as usual

#AvGeek

@chillybot @paul_ipv6 Meanwhile in cybersecurity we get reports like “scattered spider vished the mfa and then laterelled and no one could have foreseen it.” Cc @boblord @wendynather
@adamshostack
Yupppp, exactly. Bring back the CSRB! Aviation makes me jealous. We as an industry have much to learn from them.
@paul_ipv6 @boblord @wendynather
@chillybot @adamshostack @paul_ipv6 @boblord @wendynather the best incident report ive read was written by someone who was given zero guidance on how to investigate, but he was previously an aviator, so he just did what he knew.
@adamshostack @wendynather @chillybot @paul_ipv6 @boblord
Just change all the acronyms and no one will know you just copy/pasted entire manuals
@TindrasGrove @adamshostack @wendynather @chillybot @paul_ipv6 @boblord I knew when co-authoring a small subset of the manuals that there was a good shot they’d be ignored, but it’s profoundly difficult to see best practices eroded into nothingness.