Air traffic controller’s 'I messed up' highlights human limits — but experts urge caution ^0%

CBC News - By Verity Stevenson - 3/29/2026, 8:00 AM

Availability Heuristic 24.4% - Appeal to Authority 21.2% - Hasty Generalization 20%

Twenty seconds and a whole world passed between the moment a fire truck was cleared to cross Runway 4 at LaGuardia airport in New York on Sunday night and the instant it was plowed into by an Air Canada flight that had been cleared to land, killing the two pilots. What happened in that third of a minute is now mostly public through the... more