Fire truck lacked system to trigger runway alert in LaGuardia crash: NTSB

A runway warning system failed to sound an alarm before an Air Canada jet collided with a fire truck that crossed its path while landing at New York's LaGuardia Airport, federal investigators said Tuesday. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) investigators are looking at whether that lack of warning or any other problems with the airport's layers of safety precautions could have prevented the crash. Among the areas being explored are control tower staffing levels, who was in charge of coordinating the air and ground traffic and whether the fire truck heard the control tower's frantic, last-second warnings to stop. "We rarely, if ever, investigate a major accident where it was one failure," said National Transportation Safety Board chairwoman Jennifer Homendy. "When something goes wrong, that means many, many things went wrong." The Air Canada plane carrying more than 70 people slammed into the fire truck late Sunday, killing both pilots and injuring several passengers. Most,

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