LaGuardia plane crash causes cancellations at Pittsburgh International

A regional Air Canada jet collided with a firetruck at LaGuardia Airport late Sunday night, killing the pilot and co-pilot and injuring dozens. The crash has caused multiple flight cancellations to and from Pittsburgh International Airport Monday.Several flights have been canceled, including six departures from Pittsburgh and nine flights from LaGuardia to Pittsburgh. Aviation expert Craig ‘Buzz’ Conroy said incidents like the one at LaGuardia are incredibly rare. “This is just an unbelievably unimaginable situation,” he said. He explained that while the Canadian regional jet is a reliable piece of equipment, incidents can occur with any model over time. “It’s just a matter of numbers,” he said.Conroy, who wrote the book on aviation crisis management, talked about potential factors contributing to the crash, noting that runways and parallel taxiways can sometimes pose problems.”The airlines, probably, you know, have runways, but then they have parallel strips next to them that are for moving the planes when they’re not on the runway to call taxiways and the taxiways and the runways sometimes are a problem,” he said.Conroy said it could take roughly 18 months to get the results of the investigation.

PITTSBURGH —

A regional Air Canada jet collided with a firetruck at LaGuardia Airport late Sunday night, killing the pilot and co-pilot and injuring dozens. The crash has caused multiple flight cancellations to and from Pittsburgh International Airport Monday.

Several flights have been canceled, including six departures from Pittsburgh and nine flights from LaGuardia to Pittsburgh.

Aviation expert Craig ‘Buzz’ Conroy said incidents like the one at LaGuardia are incredibly rare.

“This is just an unbelievably unimaginable situation,” he said. He explained that while the Canadian regional jet is a reliable piece of equipment, incidents can occur with any model over time. “It’s just a matter of numbers,” he said.

Conroy, who wrote the book on aviation crisis management, talked about potential factors contributing to the crash, noting that runways and parallel taxiways can sometimes pose problems.

“The airlines, probably, you know, have runways, but then they have parallel strips next to them that are for moving the planes when they’re not on the runway to call taxiways and the taxiways and the runways sometimes are a problem,” he said.

Conroy said it could take roughly 18 months to get the results of the investigation.