Air Canada Crash: Survivors Escape, Investigation Begins

0:00It's March 24, I'm Corey with the story and this is Canada News today, your AI-powered local news. An air-candidate flight collided with a fire truck at high speed right after landing at New York's LaGuardia Airport late Sunday, killing the two pilots. In the first fatal crash, they're in 34 years. The 72 passengers and four crew members were on a flight from Montreal and while the cockpit was destroyed, quick actions helped most, survive. The fire truck had permission to cross the runway to check on another plane that reported an odor and aborted takeoff. Air traffic controllers urgently warned it to stop and recordings later captured one controller admitting a mistake amid the earlier emergency. Passengers stayed calm despite fuel smells and debris, ripping open emergency doors, jumping from the wings and helping each other escape, including those injured. A flight attendant was thrown from the plane but found alive outside. Passengers from the National Transportation Safety Board recovered the black boxes by

1:00cutting into the roof and sent them to a lab in Washington. They're focusing on air traffic and ground coordination, with the runway closed for days amid chronic controller shortages. LaGuardia flights resumed Monday with big delays, worsened by a partial government shutdown as teams sift through debris and review safety systems. That may have alerted to the risk.