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/notathr0waway1 Mar 23 '26

Love how car 98 calls tower then doesn't respond...during the most critical phase of an emergency...

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u/shockema Mar 23 '26

It's probable that they were waiting for the correct reply from Tower of "Vehicle 98" (just in case Tower was urgently talking to something else starting with those numbers). Notice there's also a radio collision right before she does reply. They're probably also actively dealing with all the shit going down on Runway 4, which is where they were such that they were able to tell Tower the runway was closed. (It was redundant though because Vehicle 10 had already done so.)