{"id":624386,"date":"2026-04-24T00:07:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T00:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/624386\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T00:07:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T00:07:14","slug":"stop-stop-stop-report-details-lead-up-to-air-canada-laguardia-crash-national","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/624386\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Stop stop stop\u2019: Report details lead-up to Air Canada LaGuardia crash – National"},"content":{"rendered":"

A crew member aboard the fire truck that crashed<\/a> into an Air Canada<\/a> Jazz aircraft landing at New York\u2019s LaGuardia Airport<\/a> in March told investigators he did not realize a radio transmission of \u201cstop stop stop\u201d was meant for them until they had entered the runway, investigators said Thursday.<\/p>\n

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The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board\u2019s preliminary report said the driver of another truck had relayed the command to \u201cTruck 1\u201d after seeing the approaching aircraft shortly before the deadly collision, which killed the two Air Canada pilots and injured 39 other people.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe turret operator in Truck 1 recalled hearing the words \u2018stop stop stop\u2019 \u2026 but he did not know who that transmission was intended for,\u201d it continues.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe subsequently heard \u201cTruck 1 stop stop stop\u201d 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\u2019s lights on the runway.\u201d<\/p>\n

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A total of seven airport and police vehicles, including the fire truck, were responding to an unspecified emergency at one of the airport terminals prior to the accident. The vehicles were proceeding from the nearby fire station to the terminal as the Air Canada flight was approaching the runway.<\/p>\n

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A timeline of the incident says the fire truck had requested to cross the runway with the other trucks and was cleared to proceed by air traffic control, but was then twice told to stop seconds before the collision.<\/p>\n

The report says the aircraft\u2019s last recorded ground speed before the collision was 167 kilometres per hour (107 miles per hour, or 90 knots).<\/p>\n

Investigators did not draw any conclusions or assign blame in the report, but rather lay out the evidence collected so far through interviews, reviews of the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder and surveys of the crash scene.<\/p>\n

The report does not raise any issues with air traffic controller staffing or the conduct of the pilots or flight crew onboard the plane.<\/p>\n

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It said a crash prevention system\u00a0didn\u2019t generate an audio or visual alert in the control tower, and that runway entrance lights that act as stop lights for crossing traffic were on until about three seconds before the March 22 collision. The system is designed to turn the lights off two or three seconds before a plane reaches an intersection, the report said.<\/p>\n

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The system, known as ASDE-X, didn\u2019t work as intended at the time because none of the ground vehicles were outfitted with a transponder, investigators said. The proximity of the vehicles merging kept the system from triggering an alarm, investigators said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the time of the accident, ASDE-X displayed only two radar targets (at the intersection), rather than all seven of the response vehicles as distinct targets at their respective locations,\u201d the report said.<\/p>\n

The plane, a CRJ900 regional jet from Montreal, had more than 70 people on board. Pilots Antoine Forest, 24, and Mackenzie Gunther, 30,\u00a0were killed. About 40 people, including the two people in the fire truck, were taken to hospitals.<\/p>\n

\u2014With files from The Associated Press<\/p>\n

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