[Ryan Coke]

I haven’t had a chance to watch this yet, but for generally pretty reasoned and fact based incident vids, blancolirio is one of the best. Still makes some mistakes and poor assumptions, but tries to deliver good information not trash for clicks.

Generally the US ATC system is good and trustworthy, but some airports really struggle with very high traffic and poor design (LaGuardia, Chicago O’hare, SFO immediately come to mind). And ATC, both some individual controllers as well as the systems in those places, have issues that should be addressed.

It will be interesting to find out contributing details to this event, but ultimately it was a simple and tragic error by the controller….often errors get caught by others involved before it gets to an accident. For airline crews we always look both ways when crossing a runway and make “clear left”, “clear right” calls to each other. I would assume it is the same for CFR (crash fire rescue) crews to do the same. But all it takes is one moment of inattentiveness, and the assumption that if they were cleared across it must be safe. Now those 2 errors compound into a tragic accident like this.

The crew in the RJ would have had almost no time to do anything, and the CFR crew realized the error too late as well.