The City of Phoenix Aviation Department plans to study the introduction of runway safety technology for ground vehicles that could help prevent accidents such as the fatal runway collision between an Air Canada CRJ-900 and airport fire truck at LaGuardia Airport (KLGA) in March.
That accident, which killed two pilots and injured more than 40 others, occurred after the occupants of the airport fire truck did not realize that an air traffic controller’s orders to stop crossing LaGuardia’s Runway 4 were directed at them, according to the NTSB.
