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Speaker 1: Today's Biggest News From The Australian. I'm Claire Harvey with

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Speaker 1: the Front's afternoon headlines. Details are emerging about how an

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Speaker 1: Air Canada passenger plane collided with a fire truck at

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Speaker 1: one of America's busiest airports. The pilot and co pilot

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Speaker 1: of Air Canada flight AC eight six four six were

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Speaker 1: killed when the Jazz CRJ nine hundred jet collided with

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Speaker 1: the vehicle at New York's Laguardier Airport just before midnight

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Speaker 1: on Sunday local time. Seventy two passengers were on board

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Speaker 1: when the crash occurred. They were taken to hospital. The

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Speaker 1: fire engine was given clearance to cross a runway by

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Speaker 1: an air traffic controller just before eleven forty pm and

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Speaker 1: approached with its blue and red lights flashing, but the

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Speaker 1: Air Canada flight from Montreal touched down around the same

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Speaker 1: time and was traveling down the same runway at one

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Speaker 1: hundred and sixty kilometers per hour. Audio from the air

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Speaker 1: traffic control tower seems to indicate a controller gave permission

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Speaker 1: for the truck to cross the runway. This is audio

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Speaker 1: reportedly from the tower.

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Speaker 2: Truck one and Company with Wardotower Truck one and Company

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Speaker 2: truck one and company with WARDI tower requesting to cross

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Speaker 2: for at delta. Truck one company its cross for a delta.

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Speaker 2: Truck one and company crossing for a Delta.

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Speaker 1: The controller can be heard frantically trying to get the

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Speaker 1: truck to.

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Speaker 3: Stop Frontier to stop there places stop truck on stop, stop, stop, stop,

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Speaker 3: truck one, stopp truck one stop.

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Speaker 2: Around Roma handing two thousand sick for a six.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, tick for Dela.

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Speaker 2: Vehicle in multits and I know can't move now.

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Speaker 1: Footage shows the fire engine being rolled onto its side

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Speaker 1: by the collision while the plane's nose is forced upwards.

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Speaker 1: The pilots were killed instantly. Footage now circulating reportedly includes

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Speaker 1: audio of someone in the control tower in the aftermath

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Speaker 1: of the crash speaking to other pilots and saying something

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Speaker 1: that sounds like I messed.

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Speaker 2: Up Frontier forty one ninety five. I got the word

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Speaker 2: that we're going to be closed for a little while.

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Speaker 2: If you want prepare to return to the ramp. Let

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Speaker 2: me know. Yeah, we got stuff that progress for that

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Speaker 2: man that was that wasn't good to watch. Yeah, I know,

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Speaker 2: I was here. I tried to reach out to my

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Speaker 2: stuff and we were dealing with an emergency earlier.

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Speaker 3: And I now man, he did it Bestal good, all right.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I was informed the Theapore. It feels going to

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Speaker 2: be closed for a while, so sorry, it's gonna close

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Speaker 2: all night. Never mind.

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Speaker 1: The share price of radio network ARN took a beating

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Speaker 1: on Tuesday after the details of a multimillion dollar lawsuit

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Speaker 1: brought by its former star presenter, Carl Sandalans were made public.

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Speaker 1: The Australian was first to reveal the details of Sandaland's claim,

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Speaker 1: in which his lawyers are asking the court to invalidate

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Speaker 1: his termination. The legal documents filed by Sandalans say the

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Speaker 1: sacking was unconscionable under Australian consumer law because ARN told

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Speaker 1: Sandalans had to remedy the fact co host Jackie Henderson

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Speaker 1: was refusing to present with him ever again, but AARN

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Speaker 1: simultaneously terminated her contract and banned Sandalands from speaking to her.

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Speaker 1: United States Special envoice Steve Whitkoff will soon touch down

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Speaker 1: in Islamabad in Pakistan for talks with Iran. That's after

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Speaker 1: President Donald Trump delayed threatened strikes on Iran's power infrastructure.

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Speaker 1: The London Times reports no Iranian leaders appear to be

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Speaker 1: in Islamabad four talks with Witkof, but other outlets have

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Speaker 1: said the envoy will meet with Iran's parliament speaker Mohammad

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Speaker 1: galibaf Wikoff helped broker a peace deal between Israel and

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Speaker 1: Hamas after two years of war. Negotiations with Iran a

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Speaker 1: expected to take place later in the week on Friday

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Speaker 1: or Saturday. Check out those stories live right now at

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Speaker 1: the Australian dot com dot au and come back to

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Speaker 1: the front first thing in the morning for an episode

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Speaker 1: that's unexpectedly funny. Our National editor Dennis Shanahan diving with

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Speaker 1: me into what Pauline Hanson really believes in. That's right here,

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Speaker 1: Wednesday morning,