re: La Guardia airport closed after plane collides with fire truck on runway

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Dude frick your girl? He mostly just walks through the audio traffic. It can be a but long but it's certainly not disinformation.

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You must have been one of Margaret Orr's biggest fans then!!
With regards to accidents, he's always trying to be the first to comment as a "professional" and because of that often jumps to wrong conclusions. He is not well respected amongst his own peers, including myself. If you want a reputable channel that's highly regarded among other pilots I suggest following Hoover on Pilot Debrief.

Also it’s possible that the CRJ was on the local control frequency and the ARFF truck was on ground frequency. The controller was transmitting on both but the jet and vehicle might not have heard each other.

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It is standard practice for vehicles/aircraft to question an ATC crossing instruction if the lights are red. Didn't happen here

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Are those lights always visible? Do vehicles on the ground have the equivalent of IFR in low visibility conditions? And is that IFR basically do what the controllers say because they have the instrument view of the area (radar, transponders)?

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Whenever ground vehicles need to enter any type of taxi/runway they need to get clearance from either ATC or ground control (depends on airport). Also depending on airport there may be even stricter rules for crossing during poor visibility.

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Did you completely miss this part of what I said?

While I will admit I never worked at LGA what I posted is true. Again.....ATC gave the fire truck the green light. Nothing else will matter.

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suggest following Hoover on Pilot Debrief.

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But that dude doesn't wear his old airline uniform and sit in front of a bad green screen.

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Was the truck attempting to use the runway to cross up over to F instead of going straight across on D?

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It definitely looks like the firetruck was turning to go down the runway.

The driver could have seen the plane at the last minute and was doing his best to avoid. D is also not perpendicular to the runway so maybe the angle of the video makes it look like he overturned.

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ATC gave the fire truck the green light. Nothing else will matter.

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Yeah that controller is fricked. I’d have resigned immediately after being relieved by the next controller. See if baggage handling is hiring. I’d never be able to do it again.

That plane had to be complete chaos after. Not only did they crash. But the two pilots are dead and a flight attendant is gone. Small regional jet, how many people are left onboard to give instruction. Not to mention one of their main emergency vehicles is obliterated.

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would have to take his SIDA training and part of that test is knowing the do's and don'ts when crossing taxi/runways lol.

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Yeah. Didn’t think it through. I’d probably be depressed enough to jump into an engine.

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Wonder if the United captain feels guilty about ordering a fire truck out of an abundance of caution?

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in most instances AARF is automatically rolled in the US, and if you use your words they have to roll

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It is standard practice for vehicles/aircraft to question an ATC crossing instruction if the lights are red. Didn't happen here

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I had bad eyes and am using an old phone and I am not sure what I am looking for but I don't see red stop bar lights in that video.

Also, what triggers the red stop bar lights to be on or off? My understanding is that they are controlled by ATC. If ATC gave the truck the go head then they would have turned off the lights right?