An Air Canada passenger jet collided with a Port Authority fire truck while landing at New York’s LaGuardia airport late Sunday, killing the pilot and first officer.
Antoine Forest from Coteau-du-Lac, Que., has been identified as the pilot by Radio-Canada sources.
FAA administrator Bryan Bedford said the pilots who died were “two young men at the start of their careers.”
Forty-one passengers and crew were taken to hospital, and nine of them are still there.
The Air Canada Express CRJ-900 plane, operated by its partner Jazz Aviation, was carrying 72 passengers and four crew members from Montreal to New York.
Air traffic audio indicates the fire truck was cleared to cross the runway before the collision. “I messed up,” a controller can be heard saying afterward.
Transport Minister Steven MacKinnon says Canadians will “get to the bottom” of the accident.
The Transportation Safety Board of Canada deployed a team of investigators to support the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board in its probe of the crash.
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