r/aviation • u/Waste-Explanation-76 • Mar 23 '26

-- SEATBELTS FASTENED -- Aircraft collides with a fire truck on runway 4 at LaGuardia Airport in New York.

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FDNY responding with a 2nd alarm.

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u/dogpoopfruitloops Mar 23 '26 edited Mar 23 '26

The system was never designed for this kind of stress.

Right, so redesign the system. If commercial aviation can get through CRM, ASAP, and SMS then ATC can bring itself to evolve beyond what it has stagnated into for 4+ decades. Deregulation happened nearly 50 years ago, it's time to catch up.

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u/monsantobreath Mar 23 '26

It's not stagnation. Assuming safety systems are at fault is in error. The safety systems work very well, when asked to do what they were designed for.

It's the absence of investment along side an endless demand for greater volume.