Jazz CRJ9 at New York on Mar 22nd 2026, collision with fire truck on runway

24•Shank•1h ago

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cmiles8•1h ago

Emergency vehicles were en route to another emergency in progress on the other runway. Sadly it sounds like a fire truck was cleared to cross the active runway moments before the CRJ landed. By the time the controller realized that mistake it was too late.

_moof•1h ago

I'm very, very curious about whether the ARFF crew visually cleared the runway and final before crossing the hold short line. It's standard procedure for flight crew to do this, specifically to mitigate the risk of ATC errors.

PierceJoy•36m ago

I mean, isn't it obvious that they didn't?

wat10000•15m ago

It’s obvious that either they didn’t, or they did but they didn’t see the plane. We don’t know which.

bombcar•19m ago

At night with multiple runways it can be very hard to see a plane on final.

Still, I'm always hesitant to cross an active runway.

cjrp•1h ago

ATC recording on https://www.liveatc.net/recordings.php Fire truck was cleared to cross and then told to stop. I'm not sure if they were the only controller working at the time, they continued working after the incident which seems unusual; my understanding is normally they'd be relieved by another controller.

brownieeee•45m ago

They were indeed the only controller, working both ground and tower frequencies.

newsclues•23m ago

https://x.com/thenewarea51/status/2035926457394876837

ATC audio

make a mistake, recognize it, and then have to continue on your job, knowing you likely just killed people, because if you don't others will die.

The weight of some jobs is immense, and our civilization relies upon workers to shoulder the burden everyday.

wat10000•12m ago

And these guys are tremendously overworked because the government can’t get its shit together to hire enough people to staff at appropriate levels.

callmeal•1m ago

"Government"? Let's call it what it is. ITYM "Republicans".

throw0101d•13m ago

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

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47486386