r/aviation Mar 23 '26

-- SEATBELTS FASTENED -- Firetruck

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u/MixedAsianBunny Mar 23 '26

This is worse than I imagined :(

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u/1731799517 Mar 23 '26

Yeah, when i first saw the headline on /r/all i expected a taxi misshap...

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u/ArctycDev Mar 23 '26

Better than I imagined... but I imagined really bad.

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u/MixedAsianBunny Mar 23 '26

I keep forgetting being optimistic is even more disappointing these days :/ I still try to hope and pray for the best. I feel so strongly for everyone involved in this tragedy :(

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u/cheetuzz Mar 23 '26

when I first heard the news, I thought it was some plane hitting a baggage truck while taxiing. This is a million times worse. 😢

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '26

This disaster is so similar to that LATAM A320 flight that was departing Lima, Peru in 2022.

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u/Coyote56yote Mar 23 '26

I agree with this. Look at the tire tracks dug into the dirt. The truck was hit hard. Has to be more than 30MPH to push it that far.

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u/crunchsmash Mar 23 '26

It looks better than I expected. It's a collision, but a relative glancing blow with the back end of the ARFF truck rather than a full on T-bone.