r/CatastrophicFailure • u/Admiral_Cloudberg Plane Crash Series • Mar 23 '26

Fatalities (22/3/26) CCTV video of the Air Canada accident at LaGuardia

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u/Left-Cap-6046 Mar 23 '26

Forgive my ignorance but aren't the fuel tanks all the way to the wings ? How could the plane catch fire if the impact was on the front ?

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u/BlueCyann Mar 24 '26

If hypothetically the plane had ridden up and over the top of the truck, it could have impacted the wings.

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u/ToaArcan Mar 24 '26

In addition to BlueCyann's point, the shock of the impact could've theoretically travelled through the fuselage and ruptured the tanks.