LaGuardia plane crash: 1 of the 2 pilots killed identified
NEW YORK (WABC) — A regional Air Canada jet collided into a Port Authority airport vehicle at LaGuardia Airport in New York City late Sunday, an on-the-ground crash that demolished the front of the airplane, killed two pilots, injured dozens of passengers and prompted the airport to shut down.
The fire truck was crossing the tarmac just before midnight after being given permission to check on another plane reporting an odor onboard. Before the collision, an air traffic controller can be heard on airport communications frantically telling the fire truck to stop.
About 40 passengers and crew members on the regional jet from Montreal, and two people from the fire truck, were taken to hospitals, some with serious injuries. Most were released by Monday morning, authorities said.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said the rumor of only one controller being in the tower at the time of collision at LaGuardia last night is “not accurate,” but did not provide further information on the staffing, saying it would be first shared with the NTSB as part of the investigation.
NTSB said the flight’s cockpit voice recorder and cockpit data recorder (black boxes) were retrieved, and were immediately sent to Washington, D.C. to be reviewed.
Passenger from Long Island talks about escaping plane involved in crash at LGA
As investigators work to determine what led to the deadly runway collision at LaGuardia Airport, there is growing focus on how this tragedy could have been even worse.
All of the passengers made it out of the damaged plane. Now, some are sharing the terrifying moments before the crash and the chaos that followed.
Rebecca Liquori from Baldwin in Nassau County spoke to Eyewitness News Mornings @ 10 about her experience.
1 of the 2 killed pilots identified
Antoine Forest has been identified by his family as one of the two pilots killed when a regional Air Canada jet collided with a Port Authority airport vehicle at LaGuardia Airport in New York City.
Video posted on X shows moment plane and fire truck collide
The airport’s surveillance video was posted on X. It is disturbing, which is why we have stopped the video before the impact. The plane enters from left to right just as the fire truck crosses the runway. The truck rolls over, and the plane skids to a stop in a shower of sparks.
Air traffic controllers were dealing with different emergency at time of LaGuardia collision
While the Air Canada Express Flight was descending into LGA just before midnight on Sunday, air traffic controllers were dealing with an incident on a separate aircraft.
An incoming United Airlines flight was experiencing an odor in its cabin and declared an emergency on board as some of the flight attendants were feeling ill, according to ATC audio recordings. The plane was asking for a gate to park at to let everyone out just before the collision with a different plane, and a fire truck happened.
The Port Authority fire truck radioed to Air Traffic Control, asking for permission to cross runway 4 to get to the United flight to check on passengers. But while Air Traffic Control could be heard giving the approval to cross, the Air Canada Express flight was descending onto the same runway.
“It is both significant and concerning,” said Michael McCormick, a former VP of the FAA who used to be in charge of the airspace in the New York area.
According to McCormick, there’s usually at least one controller directing ground traffic and at least one controller directing arrivals and departures. That’s not what he heard initially on the audio recordings.
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