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    „Es braucht nur einen“ – Warum es in Kanada zu einer Landebahnkollision wie bei LaGuardia kommen könnte

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    1. Legitimate_Scar7570 on

      Not great news in general for travellers and certainly not great news for those of us with a fear of flying. Dang.

    2. littleochre on

      The first article I’ve seen that gets into some of the data about runway incursions and near misses at Canadian airports, with some recent examples.

      >In 2010, the year the [TSB added runway incursions to its watchlist](https://www.tsb.gc.ca/eng/surveillance-watchlist/aviation/2025/air-01.html), Nav Canada recorded 334 of them. In its 2025 financial year, Nav Canada recorded 612 runway incursions at Canadian airports between Sept. 1 and Aug. 31, according to data provided to CBC News.

      >When runway incursions carry a risk of a collision, they become reportable to the TSB. The agency has reports of 22 runway incursions involving a risk of collision since 2023, according to data it provided to CBC News.

      >Six of those incursions involved another vehicle or piece of equipment. One, in North Bay, Ont., involved a person. But the majority involved another aircraft. There have already been three reportable runway incursions this year, all of them in February: one in Toronto involving an aircraft, one in Hamilton also involving an aircraft and one in Moncton involving another vehicle or piece of equipment.

      >While Canada has so far avoided any recent runway collisions due to incursion, there have been some near misses.

      >One came in September 2025, when an Airbus taking off carrying 122 passengers „during the hours of darkness“ [nearly collided with a bombardier aircraft](https://www.tsb.gc.ca/eng/enquetes-investigations/aviation/2025/a25o0130/a25o0130.html) conducting a ground test at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport.

      >In another incident, at[ Calgary International Airport in October 2023](https://tsb.gc.ca/eng/medias-media/communiques/aviation/2025/a23w0122-20250722.html), two ground vehicles inadvertently entered an active runway while an Air Canada Jazz aircraft was accelerating for takeoff. The flight crew saw the vehicles but continued the takeoff, passing about 350 feet above them.

    3. CanadianLabourParty on

      I don’t think people realise how many near-misses occur each day at airports.

      If you’ve ever watched an episode of Mayday or whatever it’s called, incidents like this come down to multiple points of failure all lining up.

      EVERYONE who has worked in a certified profession has probably made a massive whoopsie but dodged a big fuckin bullet because someone else caught their mistake before it became a big deal.

      Had the fire truck driver done something different, he/she might have avoided tragedy. Had the ATC been fully staffed, this incident probably have definitely been avoided, but we don’t know because even professionals make mistakes.

      That being said, Air Traffic Controllers in the US need to go on strike to stop this nonsense, and pilots in the US need to go on strike in support of their ATC buddies. They need to do that until staffing ratios are adequate and fully funded. If that means less flights, then so be it.

      Shit like this is EXACTLY what happens when we prioritise tax cuts and profits over people. We’ve outsourced and privatised the crap out of everything, in the belief that „taxation is theft“, „government is inefficient with money so let the private sector deal with it“, and look what happens when greedy, uber-capitalists get involved in making decisions…things fall apart.

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