WASHINGTON, May 13 (Reuters) – The Federal Aviation Administration said Wednesday it will spend $16.5 million to install transponders on its airport vehicles after a fatal collision in March at New York’s LaGuardia airport between an Air Canada Express jet and a fire truck.
The fire truck did not have a transponder but the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has said it plans to install trasponders on all airfield vehicles. The FAA plans to immediately begin equipping its approximately 1,900 vehicles at 264 airports that have or will have surface awareness technology.
(Reporting by David Shepardson, Editing by Franklin Paul)
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