Dramatic audio has emerged of panicked air traffic controllers responding to a deadly crash at New York’s LaGuardia Airport on Sunday night.
The pilot and co-pilot of a Jazz Aviation flight operating on behalf of Air Canada were killed after the CRJ-900 aircraft collided with a Port Authority Aircraft Rescue and Firefighting vehicle that was responding to a separate incident on the runway.
At least 41 passengers and crew members were taken to the hospital, Kathryn Garcia, the executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, told a Monday-morning press conference, with 32 having since been released. Two Port Authority police officers inside the vehicle, reported by The New York Post to have suffered broken bones, are among those believed to have suffered serious injuries in the crash.
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