Two pilots flying Air Canada jet killed in crash at LaGuardia Airport - 22 Mar 2026

[McG]

Not good news.
Two pilots flying Air Canada jet killed in crash at LaGuardia Airport

Error by air traffic control let a fire truck onto runway.

 

[dapaterson]

Followed by smoke in the tower at EWR, throwing all of NYC air travel into chaos.

 

[NavyShooter]

Reached out to a buddy of mine that's a pilot with Porter - he doesn't know who it is yet, but it's a sad situation.

 

[PrairieFella]

The recordings from ATC are chilling. You can hear the moment he realizes the mistake and tries his damndest to call off the truck. Sad for all involved. The main takeaway should be that one person was responsible for all ground and air movements at Laguardia. That is insane.

 

[brihard]

The recordings from ATC are chilling. You can hear the moment he realizes the mistake and tries his damndest to call off the truck. Sad for all involved. The main takeaway should be that one person was responsible for all ground and air movements at Laguardia. That is insane.

It’s absolutely criminal that one controller was allowed to be working all of that. That poor bastard.

 

[PrairieFella]

It’s absolutely criminal that one controller was allowed to be working all of that. That poor bastard.

You just know theyll throw this poor soul under the bus too.

 

[brihard]

This video purports to show the collision. Looks like someone filming a screen; not the raw video. I can’t verify it’s authentic, but what we can see does appear consistent with photos and videos of what was left such as the truck pushed off the runway on its side, and the respective directions of travel.

The other emergency vehicles all stopped; looks like the first truck didn’t hear the order.

https://twitter.com/x/status/2036120232192823795

 

[lenaitch]

It’s absolutely criminal that one controller was allowed to be working all of that. That poor bastard.

I vaguely recall staffing/workload was an issue at Reagan with the fixed wing -helicopter incident.

This video purports to show the collision. Looks like someone filming a screen; not the raw video. I can’t verify it’s authentic, but what we can see does appear consistent with photos and videos of what was left such as the truck pushed off the runway on its side, and the respective directions of travel.

The other emergency vehicles all stopped; looks like the first truck didn’t hear the order.

https://twitter.com/x/status/2036120232192823795

Poor buggers had about 3 seconds to realize their fate. Not even enough time to try to steer it for the weeds.