Port Authority to use tracking devices on airport vehicles after deadly LaGuardia crash
NEW YORK CITY (WABC) -- Port Authority will put tracking devices on vehicles at its airports in the wake of last month's LaGuardia Airport crash that claimed the lives of two Air Canada pilots.
The tracking devices have been recommended by FAA and were highlighted by NTSB in its preliminary report on the crash between an Air Canada plane and a Port Authority fire truck.
Port Authority will expand their use after testing them at Newark Liberty International Airport last year.
When Port Authority Police Department Truck 1 entered the runway at LaGuardia Airport at the time of the crash, the NTSB said the airport's ground surveillance system - the Airport Surface Detection Equipment, Model X, or ASDE-X - did not generate an alert warning because the vehicle did not have a tracking device.
Experts say a tracking device could have prevented the crash.
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