Maximum confusion - Fire Truck on active runway - CRJ900
Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2026 7:48 am
Maximum confusion - Fire Truck on active runway - CRJ900
Everything changes at nighttime.
https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/568287
Air Canada Express flight AC8646, a CRJ-900, from Montreal collided with a fire truck on runway 4 at LaGuardia Airport during landing.
The pilot and copilot were killed, and 39 passengers of the airplane and 2 occupants of the fire truck were injured.
The fire truck, which was crossing the runway at Taxiway D to get to United 2384, a Boeing 737 MAX 8 that reported a sickening odor following two aborted takeoffs from runway 13. The controller at the time, working both ground and tower, cleared the truck to cross runway 04, but then told the truck to stop multiple times as the CRJ was on short final.
ADS-B data show a ground speed of the CRJ-900 at Taxiway D of 114 knots (211 km/h).
https://youtu.be/zCLOAKSpq3U?si=yuuoqQzJ-7IZ75Zj
Everything changes at nighttime.
https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/568287
Air Canada Express flight AC8646, a CRJ-900, from Montreal collided with a fire truck on runway 4 at LaGuardia Airport during landing.
The pilot and copilot were killed, and 39 passengers of the airplane and 2 occupants of the fire truck were injured.
The fire truck, which was crossing the runway at Taxiway D to get to United 2384, a Boeing 737 MAX 8 that reported a sickening odor following two aborted takeoffs from runway 13. The controller at the time, working both ground and tower, cleared the truck to cross runway 04, but then told the truck to stop multiple times as the CRJ was on short final.
ADS-B data show a ground speed of the CRJ-900 at Taxiway D of 114 knots (211 km/h).
https://youtu.be/zCLOAKSpq3U?si=yuuoqQzJ-7IZ75Zj