From Global News.

The NTSB provided an update Tuesday on Sunday night’s deadly crash of an arriving Air Canada jet and a Port Authority fire truck responding to another incident at the airport. Both pilots were killed and more than 40 passengers aboard the aircraft were injured in the collision that smashed the front nose of the plane.

NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy said Tuesday that LaGuardia’s Airport Surface Detection Equipment (ASDE-X) “did not alert” prior to the incident.

Homendy quoted the system analysis saying the “ASDE-X did not generate an alert due to the close proximity of vehicles merging and unmerging near the runway, resulting in the inability to create a track of high confidence.”

Homendy also noted that the fire truck was not equipped with a transponder, but did not know if any of the other trucks were equipped with them either.

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