An Air Canada plane collided with a fire engine
Video footage emerged of the moment an Air Canada plane collided with a fire engine while landing at LaGuardia Airport in New York late Sunday, an accident that killed the pilot and co-pilot and injured several others.Read also | Who is Antoine Forest? One of the Air Canada pilots killed in the LaGuardia crash has been identifiedThe video shows the truck crossing the runway at the moment the plane collides with it.“Oh, my God!” Someone – likely watching the CCTV footage – is heard saying in the background.
Moments before the collision, an air traffic controller could be heard ordering the fire engine to stop over airport communications.Read also | “Whoa, whoa, whoa!”: Cockpit audio captures the final moments between the pilot and co-pilot before the Air Canada crash kills them bothAfter about 20 minutes, the controller seemed to take responsibility, saying, “We were dealing with an emergency earlier.
“I’m messed up.”The truck was cleared onto the runway for inspection of a United Airlines plane that reported a foul odor on board.There were 72 passengers and four crew members on the Air Canada flight, according to the airline. The flight departed from Montreal Trudeau International Airport.Read also | Is LaGuardia Airport open? Hundreds of flights have been disrupted after a fatal crash at a New York airportAbout 40 passengers and crew members, as well as two people from the fire truck, were taken to hospitals, some with serious injuries.
Most of them had been released by Monday morning, authorities said.Katherine Garcia, executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which operates LaGuardia Airport, said the pilot and co-pilot who died were residing in Canada. It was the 19th busiest airport in the United States in 2024, with more than 16.7 million passengers arriving, according to the FAA’s 2025 database.Federal Aviation Administration statistics show there were 1,636 runway incursions last year.The LaGuardia area will remain closed until at least early Monday afternoon (US local time) during the investigation led by the National Transportation Safety Board. Canada also sent a team of investigators.(with AP input)
