9 hours ago9 hr 6 hours ago, uhhello said:Looks like 2 fatalities and a few injured. Not goodPilot confirmed dead, looking at the front of the plane hard to believe others didn't perish. The ATC audio is very telling...Even when cleared to cross I still visually check.
2 hours ago2 hr Complete cluster! Very little margin for error in our profession. Speechless at the lack of discipline exhibited by controller and fire rescue driver in this crash.While this tragedy is not a military accident, it makes me hope that all of you here still serving our great nation, are ever vigilant.
2 hours ago2 hr 6 minutes ago, bfargin said:Complete cluster! Very little margin for error in our profession. Speechless at the lack of discipline exhibited by controller and fire rescue driver in this crash.While this tragedy is not a military accident, it makes me hope that all of you here still serving our great nation, are ever vigilant.Odd angle to see for the Firetruck but I am the only one that thinks the have some responsibility as well? I ALWAYS check final when cleared for takeoff and check both ways when cleared to cross.
2 hours ago2 hr What a terrible and utterly preventable accident. Based on the go-around call for Delta, it sounds like the audio is the tower freq, so everyone should have been on the same freq. If that is the case, the truck might have been on freq long enough to hear the takeoff clearance. The pilots would have heard the ground controller give clearance for the truck to cross the runway on which they were taking off with plenty of time to reject. And the obvious problem of the controller giving clearance to cross while a plane is taking off. Even if they weren't on the same freq, the truck absolutely should have been looking and seen an airplane on the runway and starting to roll towards them. Would be tough for the pilots to visually recognize the incursion in time to actually stop, especially at night and having a hard time recognizing that the truck hadn't stopped at the stop bars. Anyone know if LGA has the runway status lights? Might have been too late in the takeoff roll to actually stop anyway since it's only a hundred feet or so from the stop bars to the runway center.Seems pretty lucky that only the pilots were killed. I'd have expected a fireball with a plane hitting a fire truck that far down the runway. Maybe they had initiated a reject so they started slowing.
42 minutes ago42 min Author Was landingFA was thrown 330 feet from aircraft and survived with only broken leg.
2 minutes ago2 min 39 minutes ago, uhhello said:Was landingFA was thrown 330 feet from aircraft and survived with only broken leg.That's unreal. From the pictures I can't believe there were not more fatalities up front.
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