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[BazaJT]

An Air Canada airliner landing at La Guardia airport has been in a collision with an airport firefighting vehicle. Apparently the aircraft was travelling at approximately 24 mph when the collision occured. Two pilots from the aircraft were killed while two officers from the firefighting vehicle have "serious injuries". 41 people were taken to hospital with various degrees of injury and 32 of those have since been released.

[LC0112G]

Stuff I'm reading says 126MPH impact speed, on the high speed exit from the runway after landing. 24MPH would probably have been survivable. 126MPH sadly not.

Fire truck was responding to an emergency with a B-737 which had rejected takeoff on a different runway, and had been cleared to cross the landing runway. ATC f-up.

[STEMO]

From the BBC:

The plane, carrying 72 passengers and four crew, was travelling about 24mph after arriving from Montreal on Sunday evening, local time.
Forty-one passengers and crew were taken to hospital, along with two officers who were in the ground vehicle; 32 are now out of hospital, but some others have "serious injuries".

[Doctor Gollum]

https://youtu.be/X8guQVvXo3g?si=YaUYjjS9zBKGq5jb

[Doctor Gollum]

Between 58 and 21 knots according to flight radar.

58knts being the speed immediately before the impact and 21knts being the last transmitted speed.

Aircraft aren't really designed for a sudden direct impact on the nose, especially not a CRJ as they're basically and extended business jet, so relatively low slung and pointy. Even at 21knts, the flight crew probably had a 50/50 chance, the fire truck turned enough to reduce its exposure but not enough for the aircraft.

No mention of the condition of the cabin crew who would have been sat by the boarding door, just a toilet away from the flight deck.

Regardless of clearance the fire crew either failed to look or failed to see and react to the aircraft as it touched down although landing from the south, the lights of Manhattan and the Bronx would have been behind the aircraft, so not as easy to distinguish as it perhaps should have been.

[Doctor Gollum]

https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/laguardia-collision-ice-airports-tsa-03-23-26

In daylight, it definitely wasn't a low speed impact 

[STEMO]

Jeez, what a mess.

[Doctor Gollum]

Indeed. It will be a miracle if there aren't more fatalities looking at it from that angle

That's enough force to have punched what's left of the galley into about row 3.

A closer look at the speed looks like 114knts, so 125mph is probably spot on.