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Pilots Killed at LaGuardia 'Had No Options'

Still, passenger credits captain Antoine Forest, first officer Mackenzie Gunther with saving lives

(Newser) - Two young pilots at the start of their airline careers have been identified as the only fatalities in Sunday night's runway crash at New York's LaGuardia Airport. Authorities on Tuesday named captain Antoine Forest, 30, and first officer Mackenzie Gunther as the Air Canada Express crew members killed when their...

Truck Cleared to Cross Runway 20 Seconds Before Impact

Monitoring system couldn't see it due to lack of transponder, other vehicles nearby: NTSB

(Newser) - A critical piece of safety tech was missing from the fire truck struck by an Air Canada jet at LaGuardia Airport, federal investigators say. The National Transportation Safety Board on Tuesday said the Port Authority fire vehicle did not have a transponder, meaning it couldn't be seen by the surface...

Controllers Were Handling Odor Issue Before LaGuardia Crash

Audio suggests controllers were juggling a separate United jet emergency beforehand

(Newser) - Just before an Air Canada jet hit a fire truck at LaGuardia Airport on Sunday night, air traffic controllers in the tower were busy managing a separate emergency involving a different plane , newly reviewed audio suggests. The collision killed both Air Canada pilots and shut down the airport for hours....

NTSB: Long TSA Lines Delayed LaGuardia Crash Investigators

Homendy says she drove from DC to the airport

(Newser) - Federal investigators said Monday night that the federal government shutdown has already complicated their probe of a fatal collision at New York's LaGuardia Airport between an Air Canada jet and a fire truck. National Transportation Safety Board Chair Jennifer Homendy said long security lines at other airports held up...

Flight Attendant Was Ejected in Her Seat in LaGuardia Crash

Surviving crew member among 41 hospitalized after LaGuardia collision

(Newser) - One Air Canada flight attendant survived a runway collision at New York's LaGuardia Airport despite being hurled from the aircraft while still strapped into her jumpseat, reports the New York Post . The woman is described as badly injured but is expected to survive, sources tell PYOK . The jet, arriving...

Senators Suspect Private Equity Is Harming Firefighters

Firetrucks are getting pricier and taking longer to get, at the expense of safety, they fear

(Newser) - Pumper vehicles and tiller apparatuses are terms that likely won't mean much to you. To the mayor of Carmel, Ind., they mean a lot. They're both types of firetrucks, and in Sue Finkam's telling, they've gotten harder and pricier to obtain. She says the estimated price...

UConn Student Killed in Freak Fire Truck Accident

Jeffny Pally, 19, was run over early Sunday

(Newser) - The University of Connecticut community is reeling after a 19-year-old sophomore was struck and killed by a campus fire truck early Sunday, reports the Hartford Courant . Jeffny Pally was sitting up against a garage bay door at a fire station on the Storrs campus around 1:15am when the door...

LA: Our Fire Trucks Have No Place in Porn

Firefighters accused of loaning equipment to porn producers

(Newser) - A city policy stating that firefighters must "operate apparatus in a way that does not compromise the reputation of the department" means city fire trucks don't belong in porn films, insist Los Angeles officials. Authorities are probing reports that firefighters allowed porn producers to use fire trucks in...

Sinkhole Eats LA Fire Truck
 Sinkhole Eats LA Fire Truck 
Sep 8, 2009 7:23 PM CDT

Sinkhole Eats LA Fire Truck

42,000-pound vehicle was responding to early-morning broken pipe

(Newser) - A broken water pipe in a Los Angeles neighborhood today created a sinkhole that swallowed one of the city’s fire trucks, KTLA-TV reports. The crew, responding to the break just after 5am, felt the street buckle beneath the 42,000-pound truck; it gave way before they could back out....

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