Also, the fire trucks did not have transponders.
The lead truck didn't, not sure about the others...
NTSB: The midnight shift was operating under standard operating procedures at the time of the accident.
There were two people in the tower cab, the local controller and the controller in charge. The local controller signed on at 22:45 local time.
The controller in charge clocked in at 22:30.
It is not clear who was conducting the duties of the ground controller, and there is conflicting information, the NTSB said.
NTSB chair Homendy also mentions the truck that had requested to cross the runway. "We do know there were other vehicles behind truck 1 that did not cross the runway."
She says truck 1 did not have a transponder.
The final 10 seconds of the CVR:
10 seconds - An electronic "10" call out was heard
9 seconds - The tower instructed truck one to stop
8 seconds - A sound consistent with the aircraft's landing gear touching down on the runway
6 seconds - Pilot transfer of controls from one pilot to the other
4 seconds - Tower again instructs the truck to stop moving
0 seconds - Recording ends
NTSB chair Homendy says the ASDE-X, a surveillance system at the airport using radar and other technology, did not generate an alert due to the close proximity of vehicles merging on the runway.
She adds that runway status lights were functioning as normal. youtube.com/watch?v=SxDklY ...
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Closer to home, Kashyap Pramod Vinod Patel, the worst director the FBI ever suffered with, fired many FBI SAs that were experts on Russia and counterintelligence.
That means while the RCMP in Canada continued providing the USIC with counterintelligence information on Russian operatives in Canada, the FBI began providing less information to them.