Name: Flight simulator shows what pilots saw before LGA plane crash
Uploaded: 2026-03-24T21:33:08.000Z
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He's also an flight instructor at UFLY in Canada,

and he's in a flight simulator now with his colleague Claudio Teixeira flying the simulator.

So, Aaron, you hear Rebecca talk about the heroism of those pilots and what they did in those milliseconds when they realized something was there and tried everything they could to slow that plane down, probably in those last seconds knowing that it wouldn't matter for them,

but maybe it would for people in the back of the plane.

You also heard her talk about that final approach and the turbulence, the bounciness that they were coming in with.

What is that approach into LaGuardia like,

and what would those pilots have seen as they came in for that very late-night landing?

Under circumstances, I'd rather we were not on the show,

but I think it's important that we share our equipment here at UFLY Simulator in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, so the rest of the world can see why these things happen.

We can try to explain that as best we can.

And immediately off the top, my deepest condolences to Antoine and Mackenzie and their friends and family.

I had several text messages from friends that said, "What's going on in LaGuardia?

Why is there a fire truck on the runway?" And I get out of my morning fog and I look at the news,

And second, but equal to the top spot, thank you to the emergency responders.

That might sound a little bit strange to say that,

but the emergency responders were responding to an emergency on the airfield in LaGuardia when the collision occurred,

and I'm going to make a recommendation for that momentarily.

And of course, Claudio Teixeira, the owner and flight instructor at UFLY Simulator, he will be flying us into LaGuardia.

We are set up on runway 4 right now on the approach,

and we're going to head in there, Aaron, whenever you're ready for us to do that.

I'm going to pause the sim, unfreezing the sim.

I'll just give you some color commentary here.

We're coming into land 04, and the visibility was about four or five miles.

There were some low clouds and rain, so visibility is an issue for sure.

And off to the left side of the runway, there's an accumulation of emergency vehicles because of the other aircraft emergency at the time.

We're just coming in over the threshold now.

Claudio's doing an amazing job on the papulites here.

We're touching down, and Delta Taxiway is about halfway down the runway.

I don't know if this helps, but we're going to be somewhere about halfway down the runway here.

Right about here, the fire truck pulls out,

and I would expect that the flight crew saw it maybe at the last second as it pulled out.

And on the video that you're showing, I can actually see the fire truck turning slightly or more than slightly to the left because I think they saw that aircraft at the very last second as they pull out right into it.

So when Rebecca talks about that grinding noise and that it felt like there was that extra braking, okay, that she felt in those last milliseconds, right, then just thrown forward, obviously, by the force of the collision, does anything stand out to you by what she described there?

Yeah, most of the modern aircraft have anti-skid braking, so the pilots would be into the brakes as hard as they can be,

and the anti-skid would have definitely been working its magic.

But you have a wet runway, you have rainy conditions, poor visibility as you're landing, the windshield wipers are going.

There's a lot of different factors on this accident, as there always are.

They may even have tried to swerve to avoid the fire truck,

but inputting the runner for a right or left turn on the wet runway with the brakes on, it might have just continued to skid forward and right into the truck.

I don't think there was any way for the pilots to avoid that.

And you talk about the role of clouds and visibility coming in, the windshield wipers, and

The video that we showed of the moment that the plane collides with the fire truck, that's the surveillance video that we now have.

And the speed here on the plane is more than 100 miles an hour as it plows through.

And I suppose what you're saying is, given the wet runway, there was nothing they could have done.

I mean, even with a dry runway, is there anything at that speed with something right there that they could have possibly done, even in a perfect daylight scenario?

And I think at the end of the day, we can't have emergency vehicles running onto the runway at all.

And I'd like to make a recommendation to everyone who's watching.

I've spent my time at racetracks around southern Ontario,

and if we can borrow something from the racetrack, when you have a red flag at the racetrack, there's one thing every driver does.

They either head to the nearest marshal station or they leave the track as fast as possible because they know somebody on the track is possibly injured and needing medical assistance.

If we could have a red flag procedure, let's call it the Antoine and Mackenzie red flag procedure in memory of this accident in LaGuardia, where when there is an emergency aircraft on the field, as I believe the United was having an emergency, it was declared, the aircraft must stop operations and have any aircraft on the approach go missed approach.

The Air Canada would have gone missed, or the Jazz would have gone missed.

And they would have been on the downwind.

She was a passenger on that Air Canada flight and was just discharged from the hospital.

Rebecca, I was saying to you, I don't know some of the things in that you haven't even yet seen from that perspective because you were there on the inside of that plane.

I mean, how are you even feeling right now?

I'm grateful that I was able to go home and kiss my sons, be able to hug them because when I was on the plane, I didn't think that I was ever going to get that opportunity again.

I know you were going to you were going to be you were a godmother, so you were going to see a new baby, a flight back and forth that you had done countless times.

So when you're coming in for landing, at what point did you realize something was actually wrong?

So the flight, for the majority, was smooth.

It wasn't until we started descending and the flight attendant said, "In case of an emergency landing, don't grab your luggage." And everybody was kind of looking around like, "That's strange." And then as we were descending, the plane started to experience turbulence.

And she said the pilot wants everyone to keep their seat belts on because of the turbulence.