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Decades of near misses at NY airports all but predicted LaGuardia runway tragedy as pilots pleaded: ‘Please do something’ - ‘LGA is starting to feel like DCA did before the accident there,’ a pilot wrote last summer,
The National Transportation Safety Board said it was likely a series of failures that led to the accident at LaGuardia Airport when an Air Canada jet struck a fire truck on the runway. Geoff Bennett discussed the latest with science and aviation correspondent Miles O’Brien.
Stop, truck one, stop!” an air traffic controller shouted moments before an Air Canada Express plane collided with a fire truck on a LaGuardia Airport runway in New York, killing the pilot and co-pilot and injuring at least 13 others.