Two firefighters have died after a plane crashed into a fire truck while taking off at Peru's busiest airport.

Impressive control of the plane after the collision to save over 100 lives!

This is a situation that could have been a lot worse had those ARFF vehicles been traveling closer together. The Captain of the aircraft did a superb job of keeping that aircraft under control. Someone on that airfield is going to be in trouble. The fact that they are building a new runway complex should have required more clear taxiway markings. The fact that NO AIRPORT EXERCISES are supposed to be held on active runways at any time shows there was a breakdown in communication. I learned as a kid the first rule ... STOP, LOOK BOTH WAYS, LISTEN... There is no excuse for ARFF drivers NOT to at least check the runway for traffic landing or taking off. Apparently they even held the flight crew in custody overnight while investigating this incident for manslaughter. HOWEVER, the flight HAD been cleared from takeoff. I read where the black boxes from the plane AND the ARFF vehicles have been sent in for evaluation.

It is a miracle this was not much, much worse.
"Blancolirio" over on You-Tube has a good three or so reports going on this incident.
There are going to be a lot of factors involved in this accident, as usual. A chain of events.

As of today, there have only been ten comments, and some of those were about the glitches on the website, not the incident. How is this not a huge deal?!

The other possibility. The Air traffic controller forgot that he had cleared the equipment onto the runway and subsequently cleared the aircraft for takeoff. Let's hope that wasn't the case and it was simply a vehicle incursion. This tower was apparently not equipped with an AMASS system, which would have alerted the tower that there was something on the runway.

Plane crashed into fire truck NO Fir truck crashed into plane by going on active runway.