{"id":176182,"date":"2026-03-26T16:27:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T16:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/176182\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T16:27:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T16:27:07","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-runway-reopens-at-laguardia-airport-following-removal-of-air-canada-flight-wreckage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/176182\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Runway reopens at LaGuardia Airport following removal of Air Canada flight wreckage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LaGuardia Airport&#8217;s Runway 4\/22 reopened Thursday around 10 a.m. following the <a href=\"https:\/\/longisland.news12.com\/ntsb-provides-update-on-fatal-collision-involving-air-canada-express-jet-and-firetruck-at-laguardia\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">fatal collision<\/a> between a Air Canada jet and firetruck Sunday night, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey confirms.<br \/>\nThe opening comes four days after <a href=\"https:\/\/longisland.news12.com\/new-video-emerges-apparently-showing-crash-between-airplane-and-firetruck-at-laguardia-airport\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the crash<\/a> that killed two pilots and injured roughly <a href=\"https:\/\/longisland.news12.com\/everybody-jolted-out-of-their-seats-former-news-12-employee-shares-laguardia-plane-collision-experience\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">40 passengers<\/a>, most of which have been released from the hospital at this time.<br \/>\nIt took two large trucks to <a href=\"https:\/\/longisland.news12.com\/mangled-plane-in-laguardia-crash-is-towed-from-runway-as-most-injured-passengers-leave-hospital\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">remove<\/a> the mangled Air Canada plane and firetruck.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Since the removal of the plane and truck late Wednesday, the runway and associated infrastructure has been repaired, inspected, and confirmed to meet FAA regulations for safe operation,&#8221; the Port Authority said in a statement, &#8220;The reopening of Runway 4\/22 will help restore full operational capacity at LaGuardia, though travelers are still encouraged to check with their airline for flight status.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LaGuardia Airport&#8217;s Runway 4\/22 reopened Thursday around 10 a.m. following the fatal collision between a Air Canada jet&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176179,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,1087,70547,70546,71541,9,24,63,70545],"class_list":["post-176182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-laguardia-airport","tag-laguardia-airport-crash","tag-laguardia-airport-incident","tag-laguardia-airport-runway-video","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-plane-crash-laguardia-airport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176182","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=176182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}