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Montevideo, April 13th 2026 - 10:42 UTC

Tag: LaGuardia

  • Tuesday, March 24th 2026 - 01:22 UTC

    “I messed up”: harrowing ATC audio emerges after fatal LaGuardia crash

    The recordings reconstruct the full sequence. The controller had cleared a Port Authority rescue vehicle to cross Runway 4 to assist a United Airlines flight that had aborted takeoff

    “We were dealing with an emergency earlier and I messed up.” The air traffic controller's voice at New York's LaGuardia Airport sounds shaken in tower frequency recordings released through LiveATC.net, barely twenty minutes after an Air Canada plane collided with a fire truck on the runway, killing the pilot and copilot.