Aircraft strikes fire truck at LaGuardia, paralyzing New York airport.A collision of rare violence occurring early Sunday night claimed the lives of two crew members and left twelve others injured, forcing authorities to suspend all air traffic.
The crash echoed through the relative calm of the New York night. On Sunday evening, LaGuardia Airport was the scene of a tragic accident when an aircraft taxiing on one of the runways collided directly with a fire engine responding to a call.
The impact was fatal to the cockpit. Airport authorities confirmed the deaths of the pilot and co-pilot, who were killed instantly. Aside from the crew, the toll includes a dozen injuries of varying severity among the occupants of the emergency vehicle and potentially the plane’s passengers.
Immediately following the crash, a maximum emergency protocol was triggered. LaGuardia Airport, one of the city’s busiest hubs, was forced to close all runways to allow emergency services to intervene and for investigations to begin.
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) investigators must now determine how an emergency vehicle and an aircraft ended up on the same trajectory at the same time. Radio communications and ground guidance systems will be at the heart of the investigation to understand the causes of this major security failure.
En phase de circulation: Translated as taxiing, which is the specific aviation term for a plane moving on the ground ; Bilan: Translated as toll or count in the context of casualties Intervention: Depending on the context, this translates to responding to a call or emergency response.
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