{"id":540337,"date":"2026-03-23T11:24:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T11:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/540337\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T11:24:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T11:24:10","slug":"2-dead-dozens-injured-after-plane-fire-truck-collide-on-runway-sources-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/540337\/","title":{"rendered":"2 dead, dozens injured after plane, fire truck collide on runway, sources say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"44\">Taxiing aircraft and all ground vehicles must be in constant communication with the air traffic control to avoid any collision, said Jeff Guzzetti, a retired aircraft accident investigator and NBC News aviation analyst.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/260323-LaGuardia-3-rs-3b5597.jpg\" width=\"780\" height=\"521\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"low\" alt=\"LaGuardia Crash\" class=\"block\" q:id=\"48\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption mb-0 _caption_1r9t6_8\" q:key=\"Gg_6\">Officials examine the area around an airport firetruck on the runway at LaGuardia Airport after a collision with an Air Canada jet, early today.\u00a0Ryan Murphy \/ AP<\/p>\n<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"4e\">&#8220;That vehicle needs to follow the orders of the controller, just like any airplane would to avoid this type of situation right here,&#8221; he said, adding ground collisions are a &#8220;rare occurrence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"4h\">&#8220;I can&#8217;t even think of the last time we had a collision on the ground between an airplane and a vehicle that resulted in critical injuries,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"feedBody\" q:key=\"Il_0\" q:id=\"4k\">Based on the information available, it did not appear there was any problem with the plane, he said, adding it was likely an &#8220;operational issue involving either the pilot, the controller, or the vehicle driver.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Taxiing aircraft and all ground vehicles must be in constant communication with the air traffic control to avoid&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":540338,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-540337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/540338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}