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Air traffic controller’s anguish after fatal Air Canada crash · The Front

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  Speaker 1: Today's Biggest News From The Australian. I'm Claire Harvey with
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  Speaker 1: the Front's afternoon headlines. Details are emerging about how an
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  Speaker 1: Air Canada passenger plane collided with a fire truck at
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  Speaker 1: one of America's busiest airports. The pilot and co pilot
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  Speaker 1: of Air Canada flight AC eight six four six were
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  Speaker 1: killed when the Jazz CRJ nine hundred jet collided with
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  Speaker 1: the vehicle at New York's Laguardier Airport just before midnight
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  Speaker 1: on Sunday local time. Seventy two passengers were on board
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  Speaker 1: when the crash occurred. They were taken to hospital. The
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  Speaker 1: fire engine was given clearance to cross a runway by
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  Speaker 1: an air traffic controller just before eleven forty pm and
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  Speaker 1: approached with its blue and red lights flashing, but the
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  Speaker 1: Air Canada flight from Montreal touched down around the same
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  Speaker 1: time and was traveling down the same runway at one
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  Speaker 1: hundred and sixty kilometers per hour. Audio from the air
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  Speaker 1: traffic control tower seems to indicate a controller gave permission
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  Speaker 1: for the truck to cross the runway. This is audio
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  Speaker 1: reportedly from the tower.
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  Speaker 2: Truck one and Company with Wardotower Truck one and Company
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  Speaker 2: truck one and company with WARDI tower requesting to cross
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  Speaker 2: for at delta. Truck one company its cross for a delta.
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  Speaker 2: Truck one and company crossing for a Delta.
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  Speaker 1: The controller can be heard frantically trying to get the
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  Speaker 1: truck to.
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  Speaker 3: Stop Frontier to stop there places stop truck on stop, stop, stop, stop,
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  Speaker 3: truck one, stopp truck one stop.
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  Speaker 2: Around Roma handing two thousand sick for a six.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, tick for Dela.
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  Speaker 2: Vehicle in multits and I know can't move now.
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  Speaker 1: Footage shows the fire engine being rolled onto its side
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  Speaker 1: by the collision while the plane's nose is forced upwards.
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  Speaker 1: The pilots were killed instantly. Footage now circulating reportedly includes
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  Speaker 1: audio of someone in the control tower in the aftermath
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  Speaker 1: of the crash speaking to other pilots and saying something
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  Speaker 1: that sounds like I messed.
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  Speaker 2: Up Frontier forty one ninety five. I got the word
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  Speaker 2: that we're going to be closed for a little while.
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  Speaker 2: If you want prepare to return to the ramp. Let
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  Speaker 2: me know. Yeah, we got stuff that progress for that
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  Speaker 2: man that was that wasn't good to watch. Yeah, I know,
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  Speaker 2: I was here. I tried to reach out to my
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  Speaker 2: stuff and we were dealing with an emergency earlier.
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  Speaker 3: And I now man, he did it Bestal good, all right.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I was informed the Theapore. It feels going to
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  Speaker 2: be closed for a while, so sorry, it's gonna close
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  Speaker 2: all night. Never mind.
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  Speaker 1: The share price of radio network ARN took a beating
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  Speaker 1: on Tuesday after the details of a multimillion dollar lawsuit
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  Speaker 1: brought by its former star presenter, Carl Sandalans were made public.
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  Speaker 1: The Australian was first to reveal the details of Sandaland's claim,
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  Speaker 1: in which his lawyers are asking the court to invalidate
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  Speaker 1: his termination. The legal documents filed by Sandalans say the
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  Speaker 1: sacking was unconscionable under Australian consumer law because ARN told
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  Speaker 1: Sandalans had to remedy the fact co host Jackie Henderson
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  Speaker 1: was refusing to present with him ever again, but AARN
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  Speaker 1: simultaneously terminated her contract and banned Sandalands from speaking to her.
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  Speaker 1: United States Special envoice Steve Whitkoff will soon touch down
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  Speaker 1: in Islamabad in Pakistan for talks with Iran. That's after
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  Speaker 1: President Donald Trump delayed threatened strikes on Iran's power infrastructure.
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  Speaker 1: The London Times reports no Iranian leaders appear to be
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  Speaker 1: in Islamabad four talks with Witkof, but other outlets have
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  Speaker 1: said the envoy will meet with Iran's parliament speaker Mohammad
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  Speaker 1: galibaf Wikoff helped broker a peace deal between Israel and
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  Speaker 1: Hamas after two years of war. Negotiations with Iran a
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  Speaker 1: expected to take place later in the week on Friday
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  Speaker 1: Wednesday morning,