‘I messed up’: Harrowing final moments in New York runway crash
Allyson Versprille and Danny Lee
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New York | Air-traffic controllers were helping a fire engine’s crew navigate a rain-slicked tarmac at New York’s LaGuardia before midnight on Sunday (Monday AEDT) when panic suddenly set in.
The crew had been summoned to inspect a United Airlines Holdings jet preparing to take off. The drama that followed would quickly become the latest in a series of deadly US aviation disasters.