{"id":172966,"date":"2026-03-24T04:21:39","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T04:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/172966\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T04:21:39","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T04:21:39","slug":"expert-reveals-miracle-reason-why-laguardia-plane-crash-wasnt-more-deadly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/172966\/","title":{"rendered":"Expert reveals miracle reason why LaGuardia plane crash wasn\u2019t more deadly"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was \u201cjust pure luck\u2019\u2019 that the LaGuardia plane crash<\/a> didn\u2019t involve more fatalities \u2014 with the jet miraculously hitting the fire truck<\/a> at an angle that avoided fuel supplies, an aviation-safety analyst said Monday.<\/p>\n

Former FAA safety inspector David Soucie told CNN<\/a> that the spot on the truck where the Air Canada passenger plane struck it minimized the destruction, which led to two pilots being killed and scores of passengers, crew and two cops wounded.<\/p>\n

Follow The Post\u2019s live updates on the deadly LaGuardia plane crash<\/a><\/p>\n

The Air Canada plane that struck a firetruck at LaGuardia Airport on Sunday night. obtained by NY Post<\/p>\n

The destroyed Port Authority fire truck is seen on the runway after a deadly collision with an Air Canada plane. Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause that aircraft hit directly in the middle of the fire truck, the fire truck was moved forward, and the aircraft was damaged in the nose,\u201d Soucie said. <\/p>\n

If the truck was 40 feet back or forward, \u201cit would have struck against the wing, the fuel cells, the engines and would have created a huge fire and \u2026 many, many fatalities,\u201d Soucie said.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo as tragic as this is for the two that we\u2019ve lost, just out of pure luck, that airplane hit in the middle of that fire truck and reduced the number of fatalities significantly.\u201d<\/p>\n

Footage of the plane approaching the truck on the runway after landing in Queens. Obtained by NY Post<\/p>\n

Smoke rising from the tarmac after the deadly collision. Obtained by NY Post<\/p>\n

Dozens of travelers and other crew members were injured in the terrifying collision that took place around 11:45 p.m. Sunday.<\/p>\n

The Port Authority fire truck at first had been given clearance to travel across the runway by an air-traffic controller <\/a>\u2014 who then frantically attempted to stop the emergency vehicle after realizing a plane was coming in for landing on the strip, according to audio.<\/p>\n

Latest coverage on the deadly Air Canada crash at LaGuardia Airport<\/p>\n

Video shows the plane smash right into the truck and drag it down part of the runway. <\/p>\n

While more than 40 passengers and crew members were sent to the hospital, most of the injured victims have since been released, officials said Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n

The two killed pilots were a pair of \u201cyoung men at the start of their careers,\u201d said FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford. <\/p>\n

One of the deceased has been identified as Antoine Forest,<\/a> the Toronto Star reported, citing his family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was \u201cjust pure luck\u2019\u2019 that the LaGuardia plane crash didn\u2019t involve more fatalities \u2014 with the jet…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":172967,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[1087,57,9,24,63,6649,122,124,123,58],"class_list":["post-172966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-laguardia-airport","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-plane-crashes","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}