This accident just doesn’t make sense for so many reasons. Based on radio communications it sounds like the Ground Controller errantly gave emergency vehicles permission to cross. Regardless, every child, let alone professional driver, gets instruction to check both ways before crossing traffic. How do you not see a plane coming in to land?
As an American, we are taught “Don’t think, just listen”.
So when you ring up a $19.99 item and the register says $39.99, it takes two managers to finally conclude the machine is wrong.
And when the driver is told to cross, you don’t look, you listen to the authority, be it machine, ATC, traffic light. “Just do what you’re told God damnit, no more of that woke thinking bullshit.”
And that’s how we end up where we are.
Because the tower control operator is supposed to see everything that’s going on, and like a game of Starcraft, is supposed to tell everyone what they’re supposed to do while ensuring their safety. The truck driver was supposed to trust them and do what they said,
This could have been hundreds dead if the pilot did not emergency brake.
Special Thanks to Elon and his team at DOGE for all those FAA cuts.