Video shows moment of Air Canada collision with fire truck
Chilling footage captures the moment an Air Canada Express jet barrels into a fire truck on a runway at LaGuardia Airport in Queens on Sunday night, killing the two pilots aboard.
The fire truck was crossing over to another part of the airport to help with a call involving a separate plane when it was struck, according to video captured from inside the airport.
The crash footage shows the Air Canada plane continue down the runway even after it makes impact with the truck, which was t-boned and obliterated.
Surveillance footage captured the moment a plane and fire truck collided at LaGuardia Sunday night.Obtained by NY Post
Smoke rising from the runway after the deadly collision.Obtained by NY Post
Miraculously, the passengers and other crew aboard the plane and the two workers in the truck survived.
Moments before the crash, audio caught an air traffic controller desperately pleading with the truck to stop before crossing over.
“Stop, stop, stop, stop!” the controller pleaded. “Truck 1, stop, stop, stop! Stop, Truck 1! Stop!”
An air traffic controller can be heard pleading with the truck to stop before it was hit by the plane.Obtained by NY Post
Two pilots were killed in the runway crash.Getty Images
The truck was originally given approval to cross the tarmac to check on another plane that was reporting an odor on board. The truck was at the front of a line of other emergency vehicles heading the same way.
The problem was the Air Canada plane also was given clearance to land on the runway.
As the other emergency trucks stopped before the runway, the fire truck kept going, with the plane then smashing into it, crushing the jet’s nose and scattering metal debris, the footage shows.
The two pilots were remembered by colleagues as aviators dedicated to passenger safety.
The crash ground operations at LaGuardia to a halt into Monday afternoon.
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