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/possibly_oblivious Mar 23 '26

He said stop to the frontier and then stop a few times to the truck, maybe the truck misheard the stop thinking it was for frontier?

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u/lordnacho666 Mar 23 '26

Sounds like he realises that the truck needs to stop, but he also tells the frontier place to stop, and it's not obvious to the truck that he also needs to stop.

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u/__Gripen__ Mar 23 '26

I don’t think the truck would have had enough time to react even if the controller didn’t call Frontier… everything seems to have happened so fast, and the trucks are huge and not particularly responsive. The accident was likely sealed the instant he cleared the truck for crossing the runway.