Two Dead in LaGuardia Airport Crash, Dozens Injuredhttps://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2026/03/23/two-dead-in-laguardia-airport-crash-dozens-injured-n4950957At least 41 people had to go to hospitals for treatment, and the pilot and copilot of the crashed plane are dead after a tragic runway accident at a major New York airport, not long before midnight on Sunday.
The crash occurred at about 11:30 p.m. at LaGuardia Airport when an airplane crashed into an emergency vehicle on the runway. It is not clear why the plane’s pilots either did not notice the emergency vehicle or could not avoid it by the time they did, though the air traffic controller audio indicates that both had clearance to be on the runway. Two Port Authority police officers are among those injured in the crash, with bones broken.
The emergency vehicle was a Port Authority firetruck, and the airplane was an Air Canada craft (not pictured above), according to NBC New York. The airplane was almost at the end of its landing procedure when it ran into the firetruck. As the crash only occurred very late yesterday, March 22, there does not seem to be any official information yet on the names of the victims or what went wrong, except for an alleged audio that indicates that it might have been a mistake from air traffic controllers, rather than the pilot or copilot.
The ATC controller mistakenly/unknowingly gave the plane and the firetruck permission to be on the runway simultaneously.
