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Deadly LaGuardia collision: Letters to the Editor — March 27, 2026

The Issue: An Air Canada jet collides with a Port Authority fire truck at LaGuardia Airport.

While the fire truck that struck the Air Canada jet on the LaGuardia Airport runway lacked a transponder that could have prevented the fatal accident, it apparently also lacked an intersection emergency automatic braking system that many new cars have (“Confusion on comms for truck, tower,” March 25).

Both systems should be required for all airport vehicles.

In listening to the call by the air traffic controller to the fire truck, you hear the controller very casually say, “Stop, stop, stop.”

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Perhaps the urgency in his voice could have made the truck stop sooner and avoid the tragic aftermath.

Had the pilots of the Air Canada plane not begun to apply the brakes as quickly as they did, it was very possible the plane could have been cut in half, causing serious loss of life.

These pilots made a split-second decision that saved the........

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