Air Canada plane ground collision at La Guardia

[Melon]

Many injuries reported.

https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/air-canada-express-plane-collides-with-ground-vehicle-at-new-yorks-la-guardia-airport-many-injured-11252852

[stopdiggin]

1. without knowing details ...

I'm thinking that is is incumbent on 'ground crews' (and their little trolleys) to stay well clear of any aircraft that is even partially in motion. But - suppose it's only fair (and prudent) to wait and find out ...

EDIT: Oh my God! It was a fire engine! And injured are reported to be firemen.
Still - I suppose the principle remains the same ... Those on the ground .. Stay out of the way of moving planes! And it doesn't look like this was any little 'love tap'. Tore the hell out of the nose of that plane!

[malaise]

3. You were correct

Human error - controller gave firetruck permission to cross while aircraft was landing

[malaise]

4. Here

https://democraticunderground.com/100221117354

[PCIntern]

2. According to the article linked to above,

the plane was carrying a group of Orthodox Jews from Montreal to NY. A strange coincidence?

[harumph]

5. From the reports, seems to be an error on the part of the controller

to let firefighting cross the runway to attend to a United Airlines plane that had reported suspicious vapor. Nothing to suggest anything
but human error in a profession where people are consistently and foolishly pushed to their limits.

[PCIntern]

6. No argument but

The ATC was telling the fire truck Stop!! Multiple times. I guess we will find out eventually.

[stopdiggin]

7. HOW are you managing to conflate this into having ANYTHING to do with passenger's religion?

So this was a suicide mission on the part of traffic control and port authority fire crew .. ?

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[PCIntern]

8. No

No… no…no. my point was that in this time of unrest involving people of the Jewish religion, including yours truly, it is not a great thing that this plane held a great many orthodox Jews.

This fact was mentioned in the breaking news report, and I believe this is something worth mentioning, given the amount of paranoia, some of it legitimately conceived, existing in this world today.

It appears to be rather obvious that the controller just fucked up, for lack of a better description.

[stopdiggin]

9. Okay. I misconstrued your thrust or objective there. Apologies.

(It just kind of struck a weird note over this direction)

[PCIntern]

10. No issue

It happens a lot during these troubled times