Accident - sure. Damage - yes. Ripping off the nose, sending a seated attendant airborne - has to be high speed.
I just can't imagine how a maintenance/emergency vehicle could possibly be in an area where a plane would be at a speed to cause a severe accident. This was reportedly a take-off so the firetruck would have had to be closer to the end of the departure runway, but before the plane's nose started lifting.
EDIT -- my mistake. It was a collision after landing, not during a takeoff. Anon Archon69 linked a BBC article stating it was a 24 mph crash speed.
Got a link for that speed claim? Anon u/mundania, below, claims the 24 mph speed was post-collision during the skidding. I'm seeing other outlets reporting "about 30 mph". The damage, to my admittedly untrained eyes, seems more in line with a higher speed collision.
Early hours and there seems to be some conflicting info circulating (which, in and of itself is not unusual). The following link, in one of the first sections (for as long as it remains) shows a satellite image of the "approximate" location of the collision (satellite map, NOT post-collision). This looks like a low speed off-ramp of some sort. I think we're going to have to wait for the proverbial smoke to clear to get a better understanding of what actually transpired.
AS a material science/physics prof once said: when all the information comes together there is a picture that can be constructed and once that picture is constructed to the "ACTUAL" event then the REAL picture comes out...still holds true even now...WOWZA!!!!!!!
Kek. Yeah... About those towers...
Accident - sure. Damage - yes. Ripping off the nose, sending a seated attendant airborne - has to be high speed.
I just can't imagine how a maintenance/emergency vehicle could possibly be in an area where a plane would be at a speed to cause a severe accident. This was reportedly a take-off so the firetruck would have had to be closer to the end of the departure runway, but before the plane's nose started lifting.
EDIT -- my mistake. It was a collision after landing, not during a takeoff. Anon Archon69 linked a BBC article stating it was a 24 mph crash speed.
News just reported that plane was traveling 120mph.
Got a link for that speed claim? Anon u/mundania, below, claims the 24 mph speed was post-collision during the skidding. I'm seeing other outlets reporting "about 30 mph". The damage, to my admittedly untrained eyes, seems more in line with a higher speed collision.
Early hours and there seems to be some conflicting info circulating (which, in and of itself is not unusual). The following link, in one of the first sections (for as long as it remains) shows a satellite image of the "approximate" location of the collision (satellite map, NOT post-collision). This looks like a low speed off-ramp of some sort. I think we're going to have to wait for the proverbial smoke to clear to get a better understanding of what actually transpired.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/live-blog/air-canada-laguardia-collision-live-updates-rcna264682
AS a material science/physics prof once said: when all the information comes together there is a picture that can be constructed and once that picture is constructed to the "ACTUAL" event then the REAL picture comes out...still holds true even now...WOWZA!!!!!!!
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