AvTalk Episode 363: Collision on the runway
AvTalk - Aviation Podcast
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4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2026
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode of AvTalk, we discuss what we know so far about the collision between flight AC8646 and an airport fire truck at New York’s La Guardia Airport. We walk through the sequence of events provided by the NTSB and analyze some of the initial areas where investigators are focusing their efforts. In […]
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 363 of AvTock. |
| 0:11.9 | I, M. Petchnik, here as always with... |
| 0:15.0 | Jason Rabinowitz, Ian, we find ourselves recording on a Tuesday again. |
| 0:19.7 | We have to stop doing this. We do indeed. Circumstances |
| 0:22.9 | have brought us once again to recording on a Tuesday. And the circumstances were originally |
| 0:29.5 | good. They were because you are in Los Angeles, along with a host of other wonderful people |
| 0:37.4 | enjoying. I think of other wonderful people. |
| 0:38.1 | I think all the wonderful people are here, except for you for some reason. |
| 0:41.7 | Good catch, good catch. |
| 0:43.1 | I'm enjoying the dulcet tones of spring break with my children. |
| 0:46.5 | But you are in Los Angeles as a guest of United Airlines because they've unveiled a whole |
| 0:52.4 | host of things to their aircraft, onboard product, |
| 0:57.1 | and route network and all sorts of things that we are going to talk about later in the show. |
| 1:02.2 | You've got a segment coming up with some good folks from earlier today there. |
| 1:06.2 | Yes. |
| 1:07.3 | Then we come to the other reason we're recording on a Tuesday, which is the collision |
| 1:15.8 | between a CRJ-900 and a airport rescue firefighting truck at LaGuardia Airport in New York. |
| 1:24.4 | So let's get into that story. |
| 1:26.9 | We're a few days removed from that crash, and we've had a few |
| 1:31.1 | NTSB briefings so we know a little bit more, but not much. So let's... We know enough to be angry, |
| 1:36.8 | I think, at this point. We do indeed know enough to be angry or at least thoroughly confused and concerned at the same time. Let's walk |
| 1:48.0 | through what we know about the sequence of events so far, what the NTSB has been able to tell |
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