Watch how Air Canada Collided With a Fire Truck at LaGuardia
Sunday night, March 22, 2026. LaGuardia Airport is already stretched thin. A United Airlines flight has aborted its takeoff after an anti-ice warning light comes on, flight attendants in the back are feeling ill from an unknown odor, and the crew declares an emergency when no gates are immediately available. A Port Authority fire truck, Truck 1, is dispatched to respond.
At the same time, Air Canada Express Flight 8646, a Jazz Aviation Bombardier CRJ-900 operating from Montreal Trudeau International Airport, is on final approach to Runway 4. The lone controller on duty, simultaneously managing both ground and tower operations, clears Truck 1 to cross the runway. Seconds later, as Flight 8646 is landing at between 93 and 105 miles per hour, he realises his mistake. He calls for the truck to stop. Over and over. It is too late.
The CRJ-900 strikes the fire truck on Runway 4. The impact destroys the cockpit and tears open the front fuselage. Both pilots are killed. A Delta flight on approach is sent around. Jazz 646 comes to rest on the runway, its nose elevated, its cockpit gone. LaGuardia closes entirely. 72 passengers and four crew members were on board. 41 people are taken to hospital.
The fire truck had been sent to help one emergency. It became another.
(Disclaimer: This is an estimated recreation of the event using Microsoft Flight Simulator, based on publicly available data and real ATC audio. There may be slight variations in timing, aircraft positioning, and other factors. Unrelated ATC audio might be trimmed out. This video does not depict the exact sequence or conditions of the actual event.)
Real ATC Audio by https://t.co/5ywmRxK4NE
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In the year 878, Anglo-Saxon Britain was close to collapse.
Viking armies had conquered nearly every Anglo-Saxon kingdom.
Northumbria had fallen.
East Anglia had fallen.
Mercia had been broken.
Only one kingdom remained free.
Wessex.
And one king still resisted.
Alfred the Great.
Then came the Battle of Edington.
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๐ฅพ ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ There's a road in England older than the pyramids.
It's a public footpath.
Anyone can walk it.
Five thousand years ago, traders carried flint tools along a chalk ridge in southern England. They followed the high ground. Dry. Safe. Above the forests and the
swamps.
Eighty seven miles. Wiltshire to Buckinghamshire. They called it the Ridgeway.
It passed a white horse carved into the chalk. Three thousand years old. Still there.
It passed burial mounds where chieftains were laid to rest. Stone chambers older than Stonehenge.
Bronze Age farmers walked it. Iron Age warriors built hillforts above it. Romans crossed it. Anglo-Saxons named the villages along it. Medieval drovers herded cattle down it to London.
Five thousand years of feet on the same chalk.
And it's still there. Not in a museum. Not behind a fence. A national trail. Free.
You can drive to Wiltshire on a Saturday morning. Step onto the same chalk your ancestors walked. And follow their footsteps along the ridge.
The oldest road in Britain. Still open. Still free. Still yours.
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The word British is older than Rome. ๐ฌ๐ง
Before England.๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ Before Scotland.๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ Before Wales.๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ
A civilisation lived on this island. They had kings. They worked metal. They traded with the ancient world. They called themselves Pritani. The painted people.
In 325 BC a Greek explorer sailed here and wrote the name down for the first time in human history.
When Caesar arrived he called the island Britannia. But the name was already ancient. Rome didn't give us our name. They borrowed it.
Then the Anglo-Saxons came from a peninsula in Denmark called Angeln. They pushed the Celts west. Into Wales. Into Cornwall. Across the sea to France.
The Celts took their name with them. The region they settled in France is still called Brittany today. Same word. Different coast.
Pritani. Pretannikai. Britannia. Britain. Brittany. One word. 2,300 years old. Still alive on both sides of the Channel.
Romans. Anglo-Saxons. Vikings. Normans. Every one of them came to this island. None of them could erase what was already here.
When you say I am British you are speaking a word older than Rome.
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Every football club on earth exists because of this island. ๐ฌ๐ง
Kings banned it. The richest schools in England claimed it. They wrote the rules and locked the gates.
Then the working class stole it back.
In 1850, Parliament passed the Factory Act. Work stopped at two on a Saturday. Working men had free time. And they chose football.
Churches formed clubs to keep men out of pubs: Aston Villa, Bolton, Everton.
Factories formed teams from their own workers: West Ham from the Thames Ironworks, Arsenal from a munitions factory.
The FA Cup Final. Blackburn Olympic: weavers, spinners, a plumber. They beat the Old Etonians 2-1. No private school team ever reached the final again.
Then British workers carried it everywhere they went โฝ๐
Scottish miners in Spain founded its oldest club. A Nottingham lace trader gave Juventus their black and white stripes.
A butcher's son from the same city founded AC Milan. British railway workers in Uruguay named their team after Stephenson's Rocket.
Cornish miners founded Mexico's first football club. A schoolteacher from Kent taught the game to his students in Argentina. His school produced Lionel Messi.
A boy from Southampton brought two footballs to Brazil. They call him the father of Brazilian football.
Real Madrid are said to wear white because of an English amateur team.
From Lancashire cotton mills to every continent on earth.
Three and a half billion people watch football. The most popular sport ever created. And it was created here. By the British people.
Every Saturday, three o'clock. That kickoff time exists because of the Factory Act of 1850. The moment working men were given an afternoon off.
They chose football. And the world followed.
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You already know Alfred The Great saved England. ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ๐
But you don't know who he actually was.
He was the fifth son. Never supposed to be king.
His four older brothers were.
One by one, the Vikings killed them all.
He suffered from a painful illness his entire life. Something that left him unable to move for days.
This was the man who was supposed to stop the Vikings.
By 878 he was hiding in a swamp.
A peasant woman scolded him for burning her bread.
She didn't know he was the king.
That's how far he'd fallen.
From that swamp he rallied every man in Wessex who still believed.
At Edington he crushed the Viking army.
Then instead of destroying them, he made peace. He baptised their king.
Drew a line across the map. Mercy over slaughter.
He built fortified towns so no one was ever more than a day's march from safety.
Built ships. Rewrote the law. Added something radical: Mercy.
He could barely read until he was twelve. When he learned, it changed him.
He translated books into English himself. All because he believed ordinary people deserved to understand the world they lived in.
He wrote: "I desired to live worthily as long as I lived, and to leave after my life, to the men who should come after, a remembering of me in good works."
The only English monarch ever called "the Great." Not Henry. Not Elizabeth. Not Victoria. Alfred.
Before him, there was no England. After him, there could be.
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They STOPPED teaching the ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ ANGLO-SAXON ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ STORY.
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Fifteen hundred years ago, England didnโt exist.
Angles. Saxons. Jutes. Open boats across the North Sea. They carved the island into seven warring kingdoms. โ๏ธ
But they built. Churches. Laws written in English, not Latin. Shires, your county was drawn by their hands over a thousand years ago.
Then the Vikings came. And nearly ended everything.
By 878, every kingdom had fallen. Every king had fled or died.
Except one. A 28-year-old hiding in a marsh called Alfred.
He fought back. Built fortified towns. Retook London. Wrote a legal code. Translated books into English.
He wanted a nation that could think, not just fight.
His daughter commanded armies. His grandson became the first King of all England. 927 AD. ๐๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ
In 1066, the Normans destroyed them. For 200 years, the English were ruled by people who didnโt speak English.
But the Normans couldnโt kill what the Anglo-Saxons built.
The language survived. The shires survived. The common law survived.
The idea that a king answers to his people.
That survived.
It became Magna Carta. Parliament. The jury. Us.
Every word youโre reading right now is rooted in Anglo-Saxon English.
Next year, England turns 1,100. Most people donโt even know it has a birthday. ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ
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Today is exactly 8 years since Josh, George and Harry were MURDERED on the streets of our capital
The three boys were making their way to a friends 16th birthday party when they were deliberately mowed down and murdered!
Josh was flung over 6ft in the air and landed in the nearby cemetery, George was left half in the road and half on the pavement. Harry who had clung onto the windscreen was buried under a pile of bricks from the wall falling down
The driver and the passenger both attempted to flee, the passenger managed to get away, the driver was apprehended by two of the other boys he missed.
The passenger was interviewed for just 30 mins with the local imam present, the driver never showed any remorse
The Police refused to search the drivers property because they didnโt want to wake his parents up
He was charged with death by dangerous driving and sentenced to 13 years in prison, which was later reduced to 10 years on appeal due to the impact it had on the drivers family.
The Met Police used a fake witness and tampered with the CCTV footage. Over 50 serving officers are involved in the cover up.
The driver should have been charged with 3 murders and 2 attempted murders.
Successive Attorney Generals have ignored the pleas of the families for a retrial, despite them possessing key evidence that would lead to a retrial
This isnโt an isolated incident. No families should ever have to suffer like this
Rest in Peace Josh, George and Harry
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