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Globe says Air Canada told of confusion at LaGuardia

2026-04-24 07:23 ET - In the News

The Globe and Mail reports in its Friday edition that a firefighter in the truck that was hit by a landing Air Canada Express passenger jet at New York's LaGuardia Airport last month heard a command to stop but did not know who it was for, the U.S. transportation safety investigator said in its preliminary report on the crash. The Globe's Eric Atkins writes that the plane's two pilots, Antoine Forest of Quebec and Mackenzie Gunther of Ontario, both died in the March 22 collision. An air traffic controller had cleared the truck to cross the runway, then told it to halt moments later. The report, issued Thursday by the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board, said the turret operator in the fire truck heard the command "stop, stop, stop" on the control tower radio, "but he did not know who that transmission was intended for." He subsequently heard "Truck 1, stop, stop, stop" and realized it was for them and subsequently noticed that they had entered the runway. "He further recalled that as they turned left, he saw the airplane's lights on the runway," the report said. The report provides the first accounts of interviews with some members of the truck brigade. It contains no findings of cause or contributing factors.

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