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Anderson Cooper 360

2 Pilots Killed, 41 Injured After Air Canada Flight Strikes Vehicle At LaGuardia

Anderson Cooper 360

CNN

News

3.73.8K Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2026

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Two pilots were killed and 41 people were taken to hospitals after an Air Canada flight struck a Port Authority fire rescue vehicle on a runway at LaGuardia Airport late Sunday, officials said. Plus, President Trump backs away from his threat to obliterate Iranian power plants, claiming there have been quote "major points of agreement" in new talks with Tehran. Tehran, however, says there are no talks.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Good evening. Thanks for joining us. Two big stories tonight from our newsroom in the last hour.

0:07.0

The NTSB updated reporters on this deadly crash late last night at New York's LaGuardia Airport,

0:12.0

which left two pilots dead, more than 40 others hurt, and a lot of questions.

0:16.0

Also tonight the war, the president backing away from his threat to obliterate Iranian power

0:21.2

plants, claiming there have been, quote, major points of agreement in new talks with Tehran.

0:26.6

Tehran, however, says there are no talks directly with the U.S.

0:30.3

We begin, though, with the LaGuardia crash and the chain of events that put an airport fire truck

0:34.8

onto a runway directly into the path of a landing airliner with

0:38.7

76 people on board. I want to show you video of the crash. This is footage from an airport

0:44.2

security camera caught the impact between Air Canada Express 8646 from Montreal with Port Authority

0:50.4

truck won just after 1137 last night. It happened about 4,2,500 feet down LaGuardia's

0:56.8

7,000-foot-long runway 4, meaning the CRJ-900 regional jet was still traveling at considerable speed,

1:04.2

likely more than 100 miles an hour. The impact came just about 20 seconds after an air traffic

1:09.4

controller had cleared truck 1 to cross the runway, then quickly tried to reverse his instructions.

1:15.6

Truck one in company, LaGuardia Tower.

1:18.6

Truck one in company.

1:20.6

Truck one company, regarding power, requesting to cross for a delta.

1:24.6

Truck one company, across four at Delta. Truck one in company, four at Delta. Truck one in company cross for Delta

1:28.3

truck one in company for a Delta front there 41 95 to stop there please

1:35.3

stop stop stop stop stop stop truck one stop stop truck one stop truck one. Stop. Stop. Stop. Truck one. Stop.

1:44.5

Among the many questions, tonight, did Truck One's driver initially confuse the order

1:51.9

to stop as being directed toward Frontier 4195?

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