Decades of narrowly-avoided disasters and repeated warnings from pilots at New York City airports all but foretold the recent fatal collision on a LaGuardia runway, according to multiple news reports.
On Sunday night, an Air Canada Express regional jet collided with a fire truck on runway 4, killing the two pilots and injuring about 40 people on board. Two firefighters in the truck — which was responding to a separate runway incident involving a United plane — were also injured.
