LaGuardia Crash: Plane, Fire Truck Collide

0:00On March 24, a tragic collision in New York's LaGuardia airport has investigators focused on a fiery crash between an air-candidate jet and a fire. Trut during landing late Sunday 9, the flight for Montreal carried 72 passengers and four crew members. The two pilots died in the impact, marking the first fatal accident at the airport in 34 years, while several passengers suffered injuries. Most people on board managed to escape the wreckage, including a flight attendant who survived after being thrown onto the runway, still buckled into. Her seat. This incident unfolded amid widespread traveler headaches across the U.S., from long security weights due to the government shutdown in winter storms, to climbing ticket prices. Flights restarted at LaGuardia on Monday. The region's third busiest airport, but the damaged runway stayed shut, causing hours long delays in two. Tuesday. Officials say that debris shrewd sight will likely remain closed for days as teams combed through the mess.

1:00The National Transportation Safety Board is now pouring over the cockpit voice recorder and control tower communications from those final moments. They recovered the plane's black boxes by cutting through the roof and rushed them to a lab in Washington for analysis. With the runway offline and probes underway, air traffic around New York faces more disruptions ahead, as experts piece together what went wrong.