controller
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Investigators on Tuesday released details from the final three minutes of cockpit voice recordings and tower communications, including that controllers had cleared both the plane and a fire truck to cross the runway.
From BBC
US officials on Tuesday played down speculation that distracted air traffic controllers might have contributed to a deadly collision between an Air Canada jet and a fire truck at New York's LaGuardia Airport.
From Barron's
An air-traffic controller had cleared the vehicle to cross the runway but soon tried to halt it.
It has been installing new systems to allow air-traffic controllers to better track the movement of aircraft on the ground, and to alert controllers when a runway isn’t available for departing or arriving planes.
About 15 minutes after an Air Canada jet collided with an emergency truck, a LaGuardia Airport air-traffic controller told a pilot, “I messed up.”
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