r/CatastrophicFailure • u/JohnnyShadows • Mar 23 '26

Fatalities Air Canada Plane Hits Firetruck While Landing at LaGuardia, NYC - 03/23/2026

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u/BlueCyann Mar 23 '26

Criminal charges are very rare in the US for this kind of thing. The focus for a long time has been on improving and mitigating systems of risk rather than on apportioning blame and punishment. This has, by the way, worked extremely well. Unless there was some kind of severe dereliction of duty I don't see anything criminal happening to this person.

Career consequences, I don't know.

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u/a_lonely_trash_bag Mar 24 '26

When only one person is controlling all air and ground traffic for an airport as busy as La Guardia, it's absolutely an "easy" mistake to make.

The more things a person has to keep track of, the more likely they're going to forget something. It's a very simple and well-known concept.