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Two pilots flying Air Canada jet killed in crash at LaGuardia Airport - 22 Mar 2026
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The Port Authority Police Department Fire truck involved in the LaGuardia airport crash had no transponder to trigger a warning alert - NTSBhttps://usatoday.com/story/travel/airline-news/2026/03/24/fire-truck-laguardia-transponder-plane-crash/89304944007/
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It appears there were several failures that happened, not just an ATC issue.
www.ctvnews.ca
Fire truck in deadly LaGuardia crash lacked equipment needed to trigger warning system, NTSB says
A runway warning system failed to sound an alarm moments before an Air Canada jet and a fire truck collided while the plane was landing at New York’s LaGuardia Airport, federal investigators said Tuesday.
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Can anyone believe the priorities of this bunch of our elected representatives?
Air Canada CEO summoned by Commons committee over English-only video after fatal plane crash
The Official Languages Committee voted unanimously to call Michael Rousseau to testify after his video.nationalpost.com
Is there something else the Commons language committee should be addressing on this? Seems like they’re within their arcs. Flight out of Montreal, one of the pilots was Francophone… Reasonable for that particular committee to ‘WTF?’ unilingual crisis comms. It would have taken much to do that in both official languages.Can anyone believe the priorities of this bunch of our elected representatives?
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This is about as useful as the RSM initiating a UDI because the guys who responed to a car crash had their shirt unbuttoned. It shows a lack of seriousness, and a vindictivness that is not flattering.
This sort of BS is why many of the 75% of Canadians who aren't French have a dim view of official bilingualism.
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If I remember correctly the official language of international air traffic is English.
They should have placed a phone call and not grandstanded like circus clowns
So what? That is a red herring. A runway is 200 ft. wide. An accelerating truck would take what 20 seconds to cross? So with a transponder he enters the runway, the conflict detection goes off and maybe, maybe not the controller is able to abort the landing. The problem is not the equipment. The problem is that two separate bits of traffic were authorised to occupy the same control surface at the same time. full stop. The transponder helps notify when someone enters without clearance but with only a 5 or 10 second time lapse between the clearance to enter and impact having an alarm go off would have done no good at all. Canadian rules state or at least they used to state emphatically that no landing clearance could be issued unless the controller was assured that the landing surface was or would be clear of all traffic. In the U.S. it isn't unusual to hear someone cleared to land number 2 or 3 even. There is no assurance
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Not an SME.
Just posting an NTSB report on the topic.
Fire truck in deadly LaGuardia crash lacked equipment needed to trigger warning system, NTSB says
It appears there were several failures that happened, not just an ATC issue.
Fire truck in deadly LaGuardia crash lacked equipment needed to trigger warning system, NTSB says
A runway warning system failed to sound an alarm moments before an Air Canada jet and a fire truck collided while the plane was landing at New York’s LaGuardia Airport, federal investigators said Tuesday.
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Was that fire truck actually at a dead stop before rolling onto the runway.
Why? The airline’s CEO is talking to victims now, and leaving one of our official languages out. Again, within the arcs of that committee, it seems timely.It's within their arcs. Timing is the issue. The timing sucks.
The Commons lanaguage committee isn’t neglecting any other role they would have in this incident today that. And the 75% of Canadians you refer to probably areN’t from Quebec, where this flight originated. Again, one of the pilots, and his family, are Francophone.
The official language of international civil aviation isn’t relevant to the disaster command for a crash of a flight originating out of Montreal.
With my EAB profile I’m very far from being an official bilingualism crusader. But I can definitely see why the Common committee that deals with language issues would have issue with an English only Air Canada CEO’s statement about a fatal crash in a Quebec origin flight.
EDIT TO ADD: Had the flight been out of Winnipeg, one Anglo pilot, one Franco, and the Air Canada CEO spoke only in French, and the House language committee called that out, would anyone here be making the same complaints? Just for some perspective.
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The Commons Committee also represents those other Canadians, and I'm guessing they aren't impressed by the timing of this stunt.
They may be technically right, but as with my example, technically right doesn't mean the optics are good.
The Air Canada CEO should have used French, but calling him before the committee within two days of the incident is crass at best.
Fair enough. Nothing turns on it.I think that on this one we'll just have to agree to disagree.
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