{"id":7073,"date":"2026-03-25T14:47:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T14:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newscoverage.org\/?p=7073"},"modified":"2026-03-25T15:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T15:00:11","slug":"the-final-minutes-of-jazz-flight-8646-from-montreal-to-laguardia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newscoverage.org\/index.php\/2026\/03\/25\/the-final-minutes-of-jazz-flight-8646-from-montreal-to-laguardia\/","title":{"rendered":"The final minutes of Jazz flight 8646 from Montreal to LaGuardia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newscoverage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/652665587_10164009465020709_1759264450167920561_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/newscoverage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/652665587_10164009465020709_1759264450167920561_n-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7074\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newscoverage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/652665587_10164009465020709_1759264450167920561_n-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/newscoverage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/652665587_10164009465020709_1759264450167920561_n-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/newscoverage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/652665587_10164009465020709_1759264450167920561_n-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/newscoverage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/652665587_10164009465020709_1759264450167920561_n-720x480.jpg 720w, https:\/\/newscoverage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/652665587_10164009465020709_1759264450167920561_n.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>By Murray Sherriffs<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 2 minutes 45 seconds: Flight crew lowers landing gear.<br>\u2022 2 minutes 22 seconds: Flight crew checks in with LaGuardia air-traffic control.<br>\u2022 2 minutes 27 seconds: LGA tower clears the airplane to land on Runway 4 and advises that they are second in line for landing.<br>\u2022 1 minute 52 seconds: Flight crew sets flaps to 30\u00ba.<br>\u2022 1 minute 33 seconds: Flight crew sets flaps to 45\u00ba.<br>\u2022 1 minute 26 seconds: Electronic \u201c1,000\u201d callout (indicate aircraft 1,000 feet above the tarmac).<br>\u2022 1 minute 12 seconds: Flight crew confirms landing checklist complete.<br>\u2022 1 minute 3 seconds: Airport vehicle makes a radio transmission to the tower, but that transmission is blocked by another radio transmission by an unidentified source.<br>\u2022 54 seconds: Flight crew acknowledges airplane 500 feet above the tarmac; stable approach.<br>\u2022 40 seconds: Tower asks which vehicle needs to cross a runway.<br>\u2022 28 seconds: Truck 1 makes a radio transmission to the tower.<br>\u2022 26 seconds: Tower acknowledges that radio transmission.<br>\u2022 25 seconds: Truck 1 requests to cross Runway 4.<br>\u2022 20 seconds: Tower clears Truck 1 to cross Runway 4.<br>\u2022 19 seconds: Electronic \u201c100\u201d callout (indicates aircraft is 100 feet above the tarmac).<br>\u2022 17 seconds: Truck 1 reads back runway crossing clearance.<br>\u2022 14 seconds: Electronic \u201c50\u201d callout.<br>\u2022 12 seconds: Electronic \u201c30\u201d callout.<br>\u2022 12 seconds: Tower instructs a Frontier Airlines flight to hold position.<br>\u2022 11 seconds: Electronic \u201c20\u201d callout\u00a0<br>\u2022 10 seconds: Electronic \u201c10\u201d callout.<br>\u2022 9 seconds: Tower instructs Truck 1 to stop.<br>\u2022 8 seconds: Sound of aircraft landing gear touching down heard.<br>\u2022 6 seconds: Pilot transfers controls from one pilot to the other.<br>\u2022 4 seconds: Tower again instructs Truck 1 to stop.<br>\u2022 0 seconds: Recording ends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Murray Sherriffs \u2022 2 minutes 45 seconds: Flight crew lowers landing gear.\u2022 2 minutes 22 seconds: Flight crew checks in with LaGuardia air-traffic control.\u2022 2 minutes 27 seconds: LGA tower clears the airplane to land on Runway 4 and advises that they are second in line for landing.\u2022 1 minute 52 seconds: Flight crew<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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