Air Canada Flight 8646: Runway Disaster at LaGuardia
The Afterburn Podcast
John "Rain" Waters
4.9 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 23 March 2026
⏱️ 8 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome in. We have tragic news that has come out of LaGuardia International Airport, and that is the |
| 0:04.4 | captain and first officer of Air Canada Flight 8-6-46. Both have been killed in an accident which |
| 0:10.2 | occurred yesterday evening that's Sunday, March 22nd. Their plane collided with an aircraft firefighting |
| 0:16.0 | rescue vehicle that was cleared across the same runway that they were cleared to land on. On that |
| 0:20.3 | plane were 72 passengers as well as four crew members. Forty-one of them went. that was cleared across the same runway that they were cleared to land on. On that plane, |
| 0:26.2 | or 72 passengers as well as four crew members, 41 of them went to the hospital, nine of which still remained in the hospital as of Monday morning. We'll take a look at this flight, again, |
| 0:29.9 | operating from Montreal to LaGuardia. The objective of this video is not to try and figure out |
| 0:35.6 | what transpired. That is the job of the National Transportation |
| 0:38.3 | Safety Board. This is just an aggregate of the information as well as for some of those who are not |
| 0:42.8 | familiar with aviation. I'll try and paint the picture of what's transpiring. The airport |
| 0:46.7 | laydown of the diagram as we listen to the video just to build your situational awareness of what |
| 0:52.4 | transpired. And as you hear more, you can have more of an |
| 0:55.6 | educated thought process when it goes around it. So again, not diving into how this happened, |
| 1:00.8 | just what happened. Before we listen to the Air Canada flight audio, I want to talk about a couple |
| 1:06.2 | things that have happened recently, the first of which being a triple seven this past week, |
| 1:10.1 | operated by FedEx and |
| 1:11.4 | Alaskan Airlines 737 that had a near miss at Newark. I'll play this video here so you can get |
| 1:17.0 | an idea of what transpired. |
| 1:18.2 | I'll get a 294. Go around. Fire and we're heading. Maintiff 29. Go around. That's 294. |
| 1:23.1 | The two flights were less than 325 feet apart while arriving at Newark Tuesday night. |
| 1:28.9 | Flight radar 24 shows. The Alaska Airlines pilot attempting to land from Portland and a FedEx plane arriving from Memphis. |
| 1:36.1 | The Newark Control Tower ordered the Alaska Airlines pilot to execute a go-around. That's when a pilot aborts a landing and climbs back up. |
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