Nine people hospitalised and airport closed after landing plane hits fire truck responding to separate incident
The pilot and co-pilot of an Air Canada Express regional jet have been killed after it collided with a fire truck while landing at New York’s LaGuardia airport, in an incident that closed the airport.
The collision also caused serious injuries with nine people in hospital. It happened as a firefighting vehicle was responding to a separate incident, according to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which runs the airport.
The Air Canada Express CRJ-900 plane, operated by its partner Jazz Aviation, was carrying 72 passengers and four crew members from Montreal, based on a preliminary passenger list that remained subject to confirmation. Jazz is owned by Chorus Aviation.
To the honest, no matter how much he fucked it up, it was pretty fucked up in the beginning. That system is ancient iirc.
Yeah, Reagan functionally broke the system and every president and party since then has made tiny tweaks at best, this type of understaffing was common under Biden and Obama as well. Its just hit its breaking point.
Pretending this is a Trump only issue is covering for a whole lot of people who share the blame in addition to Trump.