NEW YORK CITY (WABC) — Consultants say {that a} monitoring system on airport floor autos might have helped stop the lethal crash between a Port Authority fireplace truck and an Air Canada airplane that killed two pilots final month at LaGuardia Airport.
The Port Authority will now broaden their use and put monitoring units on all its autos at airports.
The Nationwide Transportation Security Board highlighted that LaGuardia Airport is supplied with an Airport Floor Detection Tools system which is utilized by Air Visitors Management to trace floor motion of planes and floor autos.
When Port Authority Police Division Truck 1 entered the runway at LaGuardia Airport on the time of the crash, the NTSB stated the airport’s floor surveillance system – the Airport Floor Detection Tools, Mannequin X, or ASDE-X – didn’t generate an alert warning to air site visitors controllers as a result of the automobile didn’t have a monitoring system.
The FAA has been recommending monitoring units in airport floor autos for fairly a while.
The investigation into this crash is ongoing.
Whereas some consultants say a monitoring system might have prevented the crash, investigators are nonetheless figuring out the precise trigger, and so they have shunned saying {that a} transponder on the truck by itself would have fully prevented the crash.
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