New Delhi: The moment an Air Canada Express plane collided with a fire truck at LaGuardia Airport in New York on Monday night was captured on CCTV camera. The crash killed the pilot and the co-pilot and left several others, including two firefighters, injured.

The CCTV clip showed the aircraft and the fire truck moving along adjacent runways before colliding at an intersection. The collision was so intense that the truck rolled over and the plane skidded along the runway.

“Stop, truck one, stop!” an air traffic controller shouted moments before. An alarm was heard immediately after.

CCTV footage has captured the exact moment an Air Canada Express aircraft collided with a fire truck at New York’s LaGuardia Airport, offering a clear visual account of the incident that occurred on Monday night.
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The CRJ-900 aircraft was arriving from Montreal as Flight 8646 when it struck a fire engine from the Port Authority Police Department at 11.38 pm local time. The plane was carrying 76 people in total, including four crew members.

According to flight tracking platform FlightRadar24, the aircraft was travelling at roughly 24 miles per hour (39 kph) at the time of impact.

A formal inquiry into the incident has been launched by US aviation investigators, alongside Canadian authorities.

US President Donald Trump described the crash as “terrible”. “They made a mistake. It’s a dangerous business,” he said.

A controller was heard saying in audio recordings from the air traffic tower that he messed up. The ATC transcript reads, “Frontier 4195, stop there, please. (Pause.) Stop, stop, stop, truck one, stop, stop, stop. Stop, truck one, stop! Stop, truck one, stop.”

A controller can be heard saying, “Man, that wasn’t good to watch.” To which another controller replied, “Yeah, I know. I was here. I tried to reach out to my staff. And we were dealing with an emergency earlier. I messed up.”