LaGuardia crash: Video shows moments leading to fatal collision

NEW YORK (PIX11) — Newly released video shows the moments leading to the fatal plane crash at LaGuardia Airport on Sunday night. The CJR900 Air Canada jet flying from Montreal collided with a fire truck during its landing at approximately 11:45 p.m. as the truck was trying to cross the tarmac after being granted permission to check out a reported odor on another plane, officials said Monday. The video shows the truck crossing into the runway and the moment the jet rammed into it. Both the pilot and copilot were killed in the crash. Two Port Authority workers who were in the fire truck and roughly 40 passengers of the 72 aboard were taken to nearby hospitals. Port Authority Executive Director Kathryn Garcia said a sergeant and an officer were in the fire truck that was hit. One was expected to be released later Monday, and the other was expected to be held at a hospital overnight for evaluation, Garcia said. An air traffic control audio recording captured a controller urgently trying to stop the truck before the collision. “Stop, stop, stop, Truck 1. Stop, stop, stop,” the controller said in the recording. “Stop, Truck 1.” Moments later, the controller frantically tries to divert the incoming aircraft from landing. Roughly 20 minutes later, the controller appears to blame himself. “We were dealing with an emergency earlier,” the controller said. “I messed up.” NTSB Chairwoman Jennifer Homendy provided another update at 6:30 p.m. on Monday, saying the agency has “a lot of information, a lot of data” to sift through before releasing any definitive statements on key parts of the investigation.