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Standard procedure quickly turns to panic in chilling audio from the air traffic control tower at New York’s LaGuardia Airport in the brief moments just before and after the fatal Air Canada crash late Sunday night. “Stop, stop, stop,” a panic-stricken air traffic controller repeated to the driver of the fire truck that collided with the jet as it landed on the runway. The pilot and co-pilot were both killed in the collision and 39 of the 72 passengers were sent to the hospital, nine of whom remain in care, some in critical condition. According to the recording at LiveATC.net, the...