A fire truck was trying to cross runway 04 at LGA - LaGuardia Airport this evening to get to a United Airlines flt 2384 that had 2 rejected takeoffs. The United 737 Max declared an emergency on the ground and requested fire trucks due to a strange odor that was making the flight attendants sick.
The fire βTRUCK 1β was cleared to cross runway 04 to respond to the United flight when it collided with the Air Canada / Jazz CRJ. Listen to the audio via
@theATCapp gives you an idea of how task saturated LaGuardia Control Tower became trying to deal with this emergency and caused another emergency that ended in loss of life. π
JAZZ 646 (Air Canada CRJ-900) from Montreal collided with a vehicle on runway 04 while landing at LGA LaGuardia Airport this evening. π
π₯ Davide Rea