What we know about the LaGuardia Airport crash
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At LaGuardia Airport on Sunday at 23:40 local time, an Air Canada flight AC8646 that had just landed from Montreal collided with a firefighting vehicle. Two pilots died in the crash, which occurred after the fire truck was dispatched to investigate an odor on another plane. The plane, a CRJ 900 carrying 72 passengers and four crew members, tilted backwards with its cockpit almost sheared off. Forty-one people were hospitalized, with 31 later discharged, while the sergeant and police officer in the fire truck sustained non-life-threatening injuries. An investigation is underway by the NTSB to determine the cause of the collision, examining factors like the plane's speed and air traffic control staffing.
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AI-ExtractedInvestigators from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) will be looking at the speed the plane was moving.
LaGuardia Airport is currently closed, and the earliest it could reopen is 14:00 ET (18:00 GMT) on Monday.
41 people had been taken to hospital, with 31 later discharged but others suffering from serious injuries.
The truck had been called minutes earlier to a separate incident on board another plane which had 'reported an issue with odour'.
Two pilots have died after a passenger plane collided with a fire truck at New York's LaGuardia Airport.
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