Air Canada Crash: Pilots Die, 40 Injured

0:00It's March 24, I'm Cory with the story, and this is Canada News today. Local news powered by AI. Two pilots died after their air-Canada express flight for Montreal struck a fire truck during landing at New York's LaGuardia Airport late Sunday. The crash involving flight 8646 sent more than 40 people to the hospital with injuries. A controller had cleared the fire truck to cross the runway, moments before the plane lined up to land. As in the danger, the controller repeatedly shouted for the truck to stop, but the collision happened anyway. In the aftermath, audio recordings captured the controller voicing regret over the incident with a colleague offering support by saying they did all. They could. The pilots were identified as 30-year-old Antoine Forrest from Cotto du Locke and McKinsey Gunther. LaGuardia has faced a series of safety issues lately, including several near-miss events reported in recent months. Those are reviewing what went wrong in this case.

1:00Runway operations were halted temporarily as emergency teams responded, and investigators continued to piece together the sequence of events to prevent future risks.