Firefighter heard ‘stop stop stop’ before deadly LaGuardia collision – but didn’t know who the warning was for,

The air traffic controller who cleared a fire truck to cross an active runway at LaGuardia Airport last month had minutes before told a plane to land on the same runway, according to a new report on the deadly March 23 collision from the National Transportation Safety Board. The controller tried to stop the truck when they realized the crash was imminent, the NTSB said in its preliminary update released Thursday. But one of the firefighters inside told investigators he didn’t realize the first shouted warning was for the truck until he saw the plane barreling towards him. The report confirms new information about the collision of an Air Canada regional jet operated by Jazz Aviation and an airport firefighting truck on March 23. The two pilots were killed in the crash and 39 people were injured. At 11:35:07 p.m., the local air traffic controller, also called “tower,” cleared Jazz flight 646 to land on LaGuardia’s runway 4, the NTSB found. Twenty-one seconds later, a convoy of fire trucks left the station to respond to an emergency where another plane reported an odor in the cabin the other side of the airport. Nearly two minutes after the plane was cleared to land, at 11:37:

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