What happened in the seconds before Air Canada plane crashed at LaGuardia
On March 22nd at LaGuardia Airport in New York, an Air Canada plane crashed after colliding with a fire truck on a runway. The incident resulted in the deaths of two pilots and injuries to several passengers and crew members.

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AI-generatedOn March 22nd at LaGuardia Airport in New York, an Air Canada plane crashed after colliding with a fire truck on a runway. The incident resulted in the deaths of two pilots and injuries to several passengers and crew members. BBC Verify analyzed air-traffic-control audio and flight-tracking data to reconstruct the events leading up to the collision. The investigation aims to determine the sequence of events and contributing factors that caused the Air Canada plane to crash into the fire truck. The BBC report, produced by Aisha Sembhi with graphics by Mesut Ersoz and verification by Daniele Palumbo, details the findings of this analysis.
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4 extractedBBC Verify is using air-traffic-control audio and flight-tracking data to investigate.
Two pilots were killed in the collision.
An Air Canada plane collided with a fire truck at LaGuardia airport on 22 March.
Several passengers and crew were injured.