Video captures moment Air Canada plane collides with fire truck at LaGuardia airport

Footage has surfaced capturing the nonstop infinitesimal an Air Canada formation collided with a occurrence motortruck portion landing astatine New York's LaGuardia Airport precocious Sunday, an incidental that near some the aviator and co-pilot dormant and respective others injured.Also Read | Who was Antoine Forest? One of 2 Air Canada pilots killed successful LaGuardia level clang identifiedThe video shows the motortruck crossing the tarmac conscionable arsenic the craft slammed into it.“Oh God!” a person—likely watching the CCTV footage—is heard saying successful the background.

Moments earlier the collision, an aerial postulation controller tin beryllium heard urgently instructing the occurrence motortruck to halt implicit airdrome communications.Also Read | 'Stop, stop, stop!': Cockpit audio captures last moments betwixt pilot, co-pilot earlier Air Canada clang kills bothAround 20 minutes later, the controller appeared to instrumentality responsibility, saying, "We were dealing with an exigency earlier.

I messed up."The motortruck had been cleared to participate the runway to cheque connected a United Airlines craft that had reported an odour onboard.There were 72 passengers and 4 unit members aboard the Jazz Aviation formation operating connected behalf of Air Canada, according to the airline. The formation originated from Montréal–Trudeau International Airport.Also Read | Is LaGuardia Airport open? Hundreds of flights disrupted aft fatal runway collision successful New YorkAbout 40 passengers and unit members, on with 2 radical from the occurrence truck, were taken to hospitals, immoderate with superior injuries.

Most were released by Monday morning, authorities said.The aviator and co-pilot who died were some based successful Canada, said Kathryn Garcia, enforcement manager of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which operates LaGuardia. It was the 19th busiest airdrome successful the US successful 2024, with implicit 16.7 cardinal passengers boarding there, according to a 2025 Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) database.FAA statistic amusement determination were 1,636 runway incursions past year.LaGuardia volition stay closed until astatine slightest aboriginal Monday day (US section time) during the investigation, which is being led by the National Transportation Safety Board. Canada has besides sent a squad of investigators.(With AP inputs)