Injuries Reported After Air Canada Plane Crashes Into Fire Truck At New York’s Laguardia Airport

An Air Canada Express level collided pinch a occurrence motortruck aft landing astatine New York’s LaGuardia airport, pinch U.S. media reporting that astatine slightest 4 group were critically injured.

The CRJ-900 craft was arriving from Montreal pinch astir 100 passengers erstwhile it struck nan conveyance astatine a velocity of astir 24mph, Flightradar24 said.

In nan aftermath of nan crash, each flights astatine nan airdrome were stopped until 1.30am EST, nan U.S. Federal Aviation Administration said.

It said nan closure was owed to an emergency and that location was a "high" likelihood that nan bid would beryllium extended.

The pitchy was operated by Jazz Aviation, Air Canada’s location partner.

Footage connected societal media appeared to show important harm to nan chemoreceptor of nan aircraft, which was tilted upward arsenic nan emergency unit worked connected nan scene.

The incident occurred conscionable earlier 11.40pm connected Sunday nighttime connected Runway 4, section media reported.

LaGuardia’s website showed arriving flights getting diverted to different airports aliases returning to their points of origin.

The New York Fire Department said it was responding to a reported incident involving a level and a conveyance connected nan runway astatine LaGuardia, but did not supply further details.

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