Jazz CRJ9 at New York on Mar 22nd 2026, collision with fire truck on runway

Re:Jazz CRJ9 at New York on Mar 22nd 2026, collision with fi... by ceejayoz on Monday March 23, 2026 @06:31PM (#47496037)

If the timings on the video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pbm-QJAAzNY are accurate, it had time to cross; it seems they dawdled a bit.

Controller probably should've told them to expedite the crossing or warned that traffic was about to land, but they were managing a lot at once; tower+ground by themselves and an emergency already.

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Re:Jazz CRJ9 at New York on Mar 22nd 2026, collision with fi... by markdown on Monday March 23, 2026 @07:25PM (#47496512)

The poor guy was managing two runways and ground traffic, which is nuts.

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Re:Jazz CRJ9 at New York on Mar 22nd 2026, collision with fi... by dghlsakjg on Monday March 23, 2026 @08:37PM (#47497219)

This isn’t super unusual, it’s just that when they do this it’s normally at an airport in east bumfuck where a controller is barely needed.

Doing it at LaGuardia or any major airport is absolutely nuts.

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Re:Jazz CRJ9 at New York on Mar 22nd 2026, collision with fi... by phil21 on Monday March 23, 2026 @11:53PM (#47498431)

I counted 8 seconds from clear to cross to first 'truck 1 stop' - along with it not being immediately clear the stop was for the truck, or for Frontier 4195 until 2 more seconds.

Add a few seconds for human reaction time on both ends, I don't think that's really "enough time to cross safely" - maybe if the stars align.

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