Overview
- An Air Canada Express CRJ-900 arriving from Montreal struck a Port Authority fire truck on Runway 4 Sunday night after the vehicle was sent to a United flight that had reported an odor.
- Officials said the pilot and copilot died and confirmed 41 people were taken to hospitals, with most later released, while two firefighting personnel were treated for injuries not considered life-threatening.
- Following the crash, the FAA ordered a ground stop that closed LaGuardia before limited service resumed Monday afternoon on another runway, and the NTSB said the accident runway will likely remain closed for days.
- The NTSB recovered the cockpit voice and flight data recorders and transported them to its Washington lab for analysis, reported the voice recorder was intact, and noted Canadian investigators are assisting.
- Tower audio captured a controller clearing the truck to cross, then urgently ordering it to stop and later saying “I messed up,” focusing scrutiny on procedures, staffing on the overnight shift, and surface-surveillance tools that alert controllers to conflicts but do not issue movement clearances.