On March 22, I was a passenger on Air Canada Express Flight 8646 from Montréal to LaGuardia Airport that upon landing crashed into a fire truck that should not have been on the runway, resulting in ...

The Federal Aviation Administration is introducing a new safety measure for airport runways, following a March incident at ...

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The fire truck that collided with an Air Canada jet, killing the two pilots and injuring several passengers and crew, was not equipped with a transponder.

The report focuses on the lack of transponders in the fire trucks, which investigators suggested could have allowed an automatic warning system to alert the controller of an imminent collision. By ...

Federal investigators had said that the lack of a transponder on a fire truck played a role in a deadly collision with an Air Canada Express jet at LaGuardia.

A firefighter whose truck collided with an Air Canada jet last month on a runway at LaGuardia Airport in New York, killing both pilots, heard an air traffic controller warn “stop, stop, stop” but didn ...

A new report from the National Transportation Safety Board released about a month after the crash between a plane and truck at New York's LaGuardia Airport details the busy conditions for air traffic ...

An emergency responder in the firetruck involved in a fatal crash at LaGuardia Airport last month heard an air traffic controller’s calls to stop crossing an active runway, but didn’t know the ...