A serious accident occurred at Lima Airport on November 18, 2022. An Airbus A320neo from Latam Chile collided with a fire truck on the runway. There were several injured people on board the CC-BHB and at least two people died in the fire service.

Local media reports that the fire brigade failed to obtain permission to cross the runway. This has not yet been officially confirmed, but the tragedy is likely to have been due to poor communication. It's not every day that a plane crashes into a fire engine while accelerating for takeoff. Pilots who receive clearance need not expect to encounter such an obstacle. The options for evasive action are virtually non-existent for commercial aircraft.

Videos randomly captured by still cameras and eyewitnesses show the Airbus A320neo crashing into the fire engine while accelerating at high speed. The fire engine caught fire and at least two firefighters lost their lives. Of the

The CC-BHB pilots managed to bring the Airbus A320neo, which was badly damaged, to a standstill. The 102 passengers and six crew members were able to leave the medium-haul jet alive, but an unspecified number of people suffered injuries, some of them serious.

The accident can be seen in the video embedded below: