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Controller cleared fire truck to cross runway seconds before fatal LaGuardia crash
Investigators are also probing why the controller on duty returned to work immediately after mistakenly sending a fire truck into the path of the Air Canada flight.
- Josh Funk, John Seewer and Michael Sisak
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‘I messed up’: Footage shows Air Canada jet hit fire truck as controller panicked
Audio reveals a controller desperately telling a fire truck to stop moments before the New York runway collision which claimed the lives of a pilot and co-pilot.
- Allyson Versprille and Danny Lee
A ‘total miracle’: Flight attendant thrown from Air Canada plane survives strapped to seat
Solange Tremblay was found outside the aircraft having suffered multiple fractures but otherwise OK, her daughter said.
- Jake Offenhartz, Jennifer Peltz and Ed White
Steve Martin launches new mission to bring Aboriginal art to the world
The American actor and fellow collector John Wilkerson wanted to “spread the word” about the paintings they love. Increasingly, they feel they’ve accomplished their mission.
- Michael Koziol
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- Courts
Alexander brothers convicted of sex trafficking in case that shocked New York’s elite
Three brothers, including two of America’s most successful luxury real estate brokers, were convicted of sex-trafficking charges over accusations they used drugs and force to rape scores of women they had dazzled with their wealth and opulent lifestyle.
- Michael R. Sisak and Larry Neumeister
She’s 75, smokes and doesn’t own a mobile phone: Why Gen Z is mad for Fran Lebowitz
The author and commentator hasn’t written a book since 1981, but she’s as relevant as ever.
- Jane Rocca
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- Hotel reviews
New York hotels don’t get much more central than this
The hotel’s central midtown Manhattan location means an easy walk to Broadway, Fifth Avenue, Bryant Park and more attractions.
- Kristie Kellahan
Blizzard blankets NYC in snow, thousands of US flights cancelled
The powerful storm dropped more than 30 centimetres of snow across parts of the US north-east, forcing the cancellation of some 5700 flights.
- Rajesh Kumar Singh and Rick McKay
Luigi Mangione won’t face death penalty after judge dismisses murder charge
US District Judge Margaret Garnett acknowledged her analysis may strike ordinary people as “tortured and strange”, but that “the law must be the court’s only concern”.
- Jack Queen and Jonathan Stempel
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BBQ fork and pizza cutter: the bizarre plot to break Luigi Mangione out of jail
A man falsely claiming to be an FBI agent showed up to a federal jail in New York and told officers he had a court order to release the accused killer.
- Jack Queen