Edit: ... And... Oddly enough, the bottom section of the above post by OP is now gone, disappeared, and when trying to locate the particular NBC article that was linked, I'm seeing no mention of them responding to a "odor" on a United aircraft, only that they were responding to "a separate incident". Something seems hinky here... (Edit3: And now that section is back. Go figure?)
Edit2: I found the NBC article (I'd downloaded it so was able to retrieve the link). This is the one claiming there was an odor on another aircraft --
I just watched Under the Silver Lake, and apparently the bad smell is somebody got skunked. Same for the DC air traffic control center a few weeks ago.
I was watching Fox and they said there was a fuel leak smell the firetruck was responding to, they'd parked the other plane out at the far distance of the tarmac in case it blew up and there were already 2 trucks there. This was a local FD that was waved in and told to follow another vehicle which lead them right in the landing path.
The ground team working on the fire didn't notify ATC, which was operating at 50% of what is considered a skeleton crew, that a firetruck was crossing the landing strip and they found out exactly what happens with you do that.
Listen to the audio provided in the link, below, by anon u/MidnightToker - excellent link which also contains a visual/graphic of the movements of the aircraft and the truck while the audio plays.
According to the audio, the truck had stopped and requested to move onto the runway, was given the go-ahead by ATC and then seconds later ATC told the truck, repeatedly, to stop. Too late - those few seconds of delay made avoidance of this tragic incident inevitable.
I don't know ATC protocol, seems as if there's a lot of repetition of requests and commands. Was the ATC operator just repeating the request to clarify he'd heard it correctly, NOT giving the command to actually proceed onto the runway? Or did he give the go-ahead to the truck, but then tried to pull it back by telling the truck to stop a couple seconds later?
Click the nbc link in the post's lower section. It says they were responding to a separate incident, some "strange odor" on another aircraft.
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Edit: ... And... Oddly enough, the bottom section of the above post by OP is now gone, disappeared, and when trying to locate the particular NBC article that was linked, I'm seeing no mention of them responding to a "odor" on a United aircraft, only that they were responding to "a separate incident". Something seems hinky here... (Edit3: And now that section is back. Go figure?)
Edit2: I found the NBC article (I'd downloaded it so was able to retrieve the link). This is the one claiming there was an odor on another aircraft --
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/incident-reported-plane-vehicle-new-yorks-la-guardia-airport-rcna264677
I also saw the 'strange odor' explanation.
I just watched Under the Silver Lake, and apparently the bad smell is somebody got skunked. Same for the DC air traffic control center a few weeks ago.
I was watching Fox and they said there was a fuel leak smell the firetruck was responding to, they'd parked the other plane out at the far distance of the tarmac in case it blew up and there were already 2 trucks there. This was a local FD that was waved in and told to follow another vehicle which lead them right in the landing path.
The ground team working on the fire didn't notify ATC, which was operating at 50% of what is considered a skeleton crew, that a firetruck was crossing the landing strip and they found out exactly what happens with you do that.
Listen to the audio provided in the link, below, by anon u/MidnightToker - excellent link which also contains a visual/graphic of the movements of the aircraft and the truck while the audio plays.
According to the audio, the truck had stopped and requested to move onto the runway, was given the go-ahead by ATC and then seconds later ATC told the truck, repeatedly, to stop. Too late - those few seconds of delay made avoidance of this tragic incident inevitable.
I don't know ATC protocol, seems as if there's a lot of repetition of requests and commands. Was the ATC operator just repeating the request to clarify he'd heard it correctly, NOT giving the command to actually proceed onto the runway? Or did he give the go-ahead to the truck, but then tried to pull it back by telling the truck to stop a couple seconds later?
The friking odor again. That’s correct, are some pychos trying to kill everybody with the odor thing, maybe is a chemical like Covid?