The crash happened late Sunday night as an Air Canada regional jet arriving from Montreal and carrying 76 people struck an airport fire truck that had initially been cleared to cross the runway to respond to a separate incident aboard another plane.
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ABC News,
ABC News,
26 Mar. 2026
People kept arriving from behind, and with nowhere for the front to go, density and compression climbed together toward a threshold that crowd safety researchers consider dangerous.
My friend Thai, whose parents were part of the Weather Underground leadership, remembers his father, Jeff Jones, coming home one day to find their family’s Hoboken apartment surrounded by cops—a fire inspector had spotted his tiny crop of marijuana plants on the fire escape.
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Zayd Ayers Dohrn,
New Yorker,
28 Mar. 2026
For now, channel the ambition, trust the momentum, and know that the slower, more nourishing chapter is coming.
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Kirah Tabourn,
Condé Nast Traveler,
28 Mar. 2026
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