Air Canada flight crashes into a fire truck at LaGuardia, killing two pilots

The fire truck was also destroyed. This is the first fatal incident involving an Air Canada flight in over 40 years.

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An Air Canada flight from Montreal collided with a fire truck while landing at New York’s LaGuardia Airport Sunday night, killing the pilot and co-pilot and sending 41 others to the hospital.

Fire services had been called to the runway after a strange odour was reported on United Flight 2384. Disaster struck when Air Canada Express flight 8646, a CRJ-900, was cleared to land on runway 4—the same runway where fire services were dispatched.

Ryan Gerritsen🇨🇦🇳🇱@ryangerritsen

Here are the events leading up to the Air Canada plane being struck by the Fire Truck.

1:33 PM · Mar 23, 2026 · 3.42K Views

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