But by that time its nose was protruding 35 feet into the runway being used by the speeding Airbus A-220. The passenger airliner “became airborne just before reaching the intersection point,” according to a description by the Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB). Another Air Canada Express plane landing at La Guardia airport struck an airport fire truck just before midnight Sunday. It was a tragic example of what the aviation industry calls “runway incursions” — incidents where planes, ground vehicles or people end up in the wrong place at the wrong time on airport pavement, risking disastrous collisions. But the number of runway incursions in Canada doubled between 2010 and 2021, according to a 2022 report by the TSB, with 471 incidents recorded in 2021.

Source: National Post March 23, 2026 20:08 UTC