{"id":539975,"date":"2026-03-23T06:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T06:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/539975\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T06:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T06:42:09","slug":"4-injured-after-air-canada-plane-collides-with-vehicle-at-new-yorks-la-guardia-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/539975\/","title":{"rendered":"4 injured after Air Canada plane collides with vehicle at New York&#8217;s La Guardia Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"anchor-992b21\" class=\"body-graf\">Four people were injured when authorities said an Air Canada passenger plane collided with a fire truck on a La Guardia Airport runway late Sunday, according to two sources familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-12e937\" class=\"body-graf\">The plane, a Jazz Aviation flight operating on behalf of Air Canada, struck a Port Authority vehicle that was responding a separate incident around 11:40 p.m., according to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. <\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-878f7f\" class=\"body-graf\">The pilot and copilot on the flight are badly injured. A sergeant and an officer have broken limbs and are in stable condition at a hospital, according to preliminary information from the sources.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-abdb2b\" class=\"body-graf\">No other major injuries have been reported. <\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-b3ef59\" class=\"body-graf\">Port Authority described the truck as an aircraft rescue and firefighting vehicle. It was manned by police officers, the sources said.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/260323-lga-plane-1-cc-0214a-2dcf1c.jpg\" alt=\"LaGuardia Crash\" height=\"1668\" width=\"2500\"\/>An Air Canada Jet sits on the runway at LaGuardia Airport in New York on Monday after colliding with a Port Authority vehicle.Ryan Murphy \/ AP<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-7fb608\" class=\"body-graf\">The sources said 76 passengers and four crew members were on board the plane, which was at the end of landing and going about 30 mph when the collision occurred. <\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-2a11c7\" class=\"body-graf\">The Federal Aviation Administration said the plane was a Bombardier CRJ-900 twin-jet aircraft that was arriving from Montreal. The accident happened on LaGuardia\u2019s Runway 4, it said. The FAA said it was investigating the crash.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-838d1a\" class=\"body-graf\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@linalovesjay\/video\/7620297393824681246?amp%3Bt=1774239297985&amp;q=laguardia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Video posted<\/a> on social media a passenger jet on the runway with its cockpit high and the underside of its forward fuselage mangled.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-9c535e\" class=\"body-graf\">The airport was closed and flights were subject to a ground stop because of an aircraft emergency, according to the FAA.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-4d9ba8\" class=\"body-graf\">The National Transportation Safety Board said it is launching a go team to investigate the collision.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-a24a3a\" class=\"endmark body-graf\">LaGuardia is in New York City&#8217;s Queens borough.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four people were injured when authorities said an Air Canada passenger plane collided with a fire truck on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":539976,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-539975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=539975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/539976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}