RT by @SpaethFlies: Here’s a front-facing photo of Air Canada Express Flight AC8646, a Bombardier CRJ-900 from Montreal, showing the crash damage at LaGuardia.
2026-03-24 - twitter_SpaethFlies
RT by @SpaethFlies: Air Canada CRJ-900 has collided with a fire truck while landing at La Guardia Airport. The plane, a Jazz Aviation flight operating on behalf of Air Canada, struck a Port Authority vehicle that was responding a separate incident around 11:40 p.m., according to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. Two sources familiar with the matter said the pilot and copilot on board the passenger plane were badly injured in the late-night collision. A Port Authority Police Department sergeant and officer had broken limbs and were stabilized at a hospital, they said. No other major injuries have been reported, the sources said. The plane was nearing the end of its landing, rolling at about 30 mph, when collision took place, the sources said.
2026-03-24 - twitter_SpaethFlies
RT by @SpaethFlies: UPDATE: Analysis of tower audio and map of the airport indicates the aircraft was showing a speed of 114kts or 131mph. JAZZ646 (yellow line) was cleared to land on Runway 4. Truck 1 & Company (green line) requested to cross RW 4 and was authorized to cross by the tower at taxiway D (red circle). Tower then attempts to call Truck 1 and tells them to stop multiple times. The silences and unrelated traffic has been trimmed from this audio, provided by @liveatc.
2026-03-24 - twitter_SpaethFlies
RT by @SpaethFlies: ATC controller who cleared Firetruck to cross RWY4 at LGA in front of a landing CRJ admits "“I messed up” on ATC recording shortly after the accident. Gut-renching stuff.
2026-03-24 - twitter_SpaethFlies
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2026-03-24 - twitter_SpaethFlies
RT by @SpaethFlies: The air traffic controller cleared the fire truck onto the runway. Seconds later, the same controller screamed “stop, stop, stop.” The plane was doing 93 to 105 mph. Both pilots are dead. Everyone will frame this as controller error. One controller was simultaneously managing a United flight that aborted takeoff after an anti-ice warning, dispatching a fire truck across an active runway, and sequencing an inbound Air Canada landing at highway speed. At 11:40 PM. On a mandatory overtime shift at a facility that has been understaffed for years. A system that assigns one person that workload will produce exactly this outcome. The only variable is when. The FAA is short approximately 3,000 controllers. The headcount dropped 13% from 2010 to 2024 while flight volume rose 10%. Over 40% of the FAA’s 290 terminal facilities are understaffed. The New York TRACON, which manages the most congested airspace in America across LaGuardia, JFK, and Newark, has been chronically below target. Newark was operating at 59% of its staffing goal. LaGuardia handles 900 flights a day. The hiring pipeline is broken at every stage. Only 2% of applicants complete the full process. Training takes up to 6 years. The FAA Academy in Oklahoma City is a bottleneck, with roughly 35% of trainees washing out. Congress blocked legislation to build a second academy. In one recent hiring cycle, the FAA brought on 1,512 candidates and lost 1,300 in the same window. Net gain: around 160 controllers for an entire country. Three things need to happen and everyone who can make them happen has known for years. Congress needs to fund and authorize a second FAA training academy. One facility in Oklahoma City cannot produce enough controllers for 900 million annual passengers. Members of Congress from Oklahoma have actively blocked this. That needs to end yesterday. The FAA needs to cut certification time. Six years from application to fully certified controller is absurd. The agency’s own data shows tower simulators reduce certification time by 27%. They’ve installed them at 95 facilities. That should be every facility, and the simulated hours should count toward more of the certification requirement. The FAA needs to stop plugging staffing gaps with mandatory overtime. Controllers at understaffed facilities are working six-day weeks rotating between morning, mid, and night shifts. The NTSB has flagged fatigue repeatedly. The controller last night was managing overlapping emergencies during a nighttime operation. Overtime is not a staffing plan. It’s a countdown to the next runway collision. The controller said “I messed up” to a Frontier pilot who watched the whole thing. The pilot responded “No man, you did the best you could.” One of them is right. The answer determines whether this happens again.
2026-03-24 - twitter_SpaethFlies
RT by @SpaethFlies: Audio captured the moment an incredibly calm air traffic controller prevented a potentially catastrophic plane crash at Newark Airport. The frightening near-miss unfolded just days before an Air Canada passenger plane smashed into a rescue truck at New York’s LaGuardia Airport.
2026-03-24 - twitter_SpaethFlies
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